Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hurley advanced on the honor guard of disheveled soldiers, stood for a moment, and then let out a loud screech-"Yahoo!" -giving the Choctaw yell of his native Oklahoma. We gaped; but this was President Roosevelt's choice. That evening, since the Communists had already prepared a banquet in honor of the November 7 anniversary of the great Russian Revolution, we were all invited. At that banquet, when Hurley was called on to speak, he rose, paused, and then yelled again at the top of his lungs, "Yahoo...
...Malmedy massacre of American GIs by Nazi storm troopers. He felt we should have caught, convicted and shot the SS killers immediately after victory; all shooting after a war should be done within six months. He did not like the Nuremberg trials either. But the trials had been Roosevelt's idea. As he talked about Roosevelt, his own admiration and exasperation came through. He picked out Roosevelt's vast geographical knowledge as the President's most extraordinary quality, and then, with irritation, spoke of the difficulty of pinning Roosevelt down to specifics. the stubbornness of Roosevelt...
...general, not a Philippine field marshal, had been named commander of all U.S. forces in the Southwest Pacific-but with no visible support in troops, ships or supplies. He was indignant. I visited him in his headquarters at Melbourne, Australia. He managed to denounce all at once, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President; George Catlett Marshall, the regnant chief of staff; Harry Luce, the publisher of my magazine; and the U.S. Navy. ("White," he said, "the best navy in the world is the Japanese Navy. A first-class navy. Then comes the British Navy. The U.S. Navy is a fourth-class...
...late 1944, the military situation in China was desperate. Chiang and Stilwell were at an impasse; and Nationalist and Communist troops were faced off, as ready to open civil war against each other as to fight the advancing Japanese. To settle these intractable quarrels, President Roosevelt sent a special emissary...
...Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...