Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recognition of the two men who ran the Marshalls show was also a sop to admirals at sea who would be more than likely to resent the promotions of three landbound rear admirals to three stars. The three, all capable bureau chiefs: bull-necked Ben Moreell (Yards and Docks); Ross T. Mclntire (Medicine); Randall Jacobs (Personnel...
Reported his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire: on his 62nd birthday, Franklin Roosevelt was in better health than at any time since he has been in the White House...
...such high, hot talk, the tall, tough new FEPChairman Malcolm Ross, 48, had a ready answer. FEPC, said Mike Ross, did not contemplate promoting Negroes to the job of engineers. FEPC merely wanred to restore the Negroes' chance to rise to the job of fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower...
...least once before, Franklin Roosevelt has been able to finesse the question; in July 1942, he turned FEPC over to WMCzar Paul McNutt, who conveniently forgot to take any action. But Mike Ross, one of the original bright boys of the early New Deal, has no intention of treading water. A Hotchkiss & Yale graduate, onetime miner, newsman and author (Death of a Yale Man), Mike Ross believes in FEPC's principles. Franklin Roosevelt cannot outwait this...
...came to the Navy from a municipal job during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when he was made Bureau Chief. To Ben Moreell belongs much credit for the gigantic job of building the Navy's worldwide bases. Other typical non-Annapolis staff corps admirals: Ross T. Mclntire, Chief of the Bu reau of Medicine and Surgery; William...