Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-hitting Arleigh Burke was always a handy man to have around in a fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty...
On the results of that tour the State Department was expected to base some of its most critical decisions of 1950. If Diplomat Jessup, who had sometimes questioned State's wait-until-the-dust-settles policy, could provide the basis for a revitalized U.S. policy in Asia, his seat...
Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do...
At week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience...
"You requested my removal from duty as Chief of Naval Operations, giving among the reasons therefor that I was, in your opinion, not loyal to my superiors and did not have the 'respect for authority' that should exist 'between various official ranks.'