Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military men in Paris had two quick preliminary meetings. While some of his aides went dancing on Montmartre, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, burned the midnight oil in his suite at the Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called...
...Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...
...Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch...
Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...