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Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...
...eleven men, convicted on one or both counts of waging aggressive defensive war, or spreading equalitarian doctrines, included: Bernard Baruch, close collaborator of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt; General George C. Marshall, former chief of staff; Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President and vicious fascist-baiter; General Alexander A. Vandegrift, former commander of the notorious Marine Corps; Charles A. Beard, democratic philosopher; Ezequiel Padilla, Trojan horse of the Mexican Anschluss...
John Harvard's latter-day sons suddenly included a fine collection of highly polished brass. Honorary LL.D.s went to: General Henry H. Arnold, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Generals George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur (in absentia). John had it just about covered...
...Doctor of Laws degree was presented at that time to Alexander A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, U. S. Navy, Henry A. Arnold, retiring Chief of the U. S. Army Air Forces, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army...
...Navy's other witness, General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, U.S.M.C., had his own argument: what would become of the Marine Corps and its esprit de corps under the merger? The Army had answered that in advance; it would go on operating as it always had, under the Navy and its Under Secretary...