Word: seadogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polio-myelitic son of assassinated French Admiral Jean François Darlan, chatted with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father's death...
Peter Marsh Stanford is no ordinary naval expert. He has been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
Navy men have long fumed that the Army grabs the glory while the Navy has done most of the fighting. Some admirals have advocated a high-pressure Hurrah-Navy campaign; others have preferred to suffer in seadog silence. But one 65-year-old admiral waited no longer last week...
...ready for retirement in 1939, Franklin Roosevelt decided he was too good a horse to turn out to pasture, made him Governor of Puerto Rico, then pulled him out for the U.S.'s toughest diplomatic mission: emissary to Vichyfrance. As Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Seadog Leahy will need diplomacy. Working directly with and under the President, he will be over the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest Joseph King. But whether Leahy would be a real boss, or a glorified errand...
...planning, procuring, supervising production, shipment, whatever. These four, all 100% New Dealers, all young, tough-minded, aggressive, will be the Hopkins crew of odd-job men, sword-bearers, idea-factories, and intellectual bravos. They will work directly with the Navy's Paymaster, Rear Admiral Ray Spear, a grizzled seadog, and the Army's Major General James H. Burns, veteran War Department executive...