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...still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare in the sky. Nate Twining, military airman since 1923, came to high command heavily fueled...
...Transfer of executive responsibility for a unified, multiservice command from one of the Joint Chiefs (e.g., Korea under Army General J. Lawton Collins. Alaska under Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg) to a civilian service secretary. Result: more civilian control, and a further confinement of the Joint Chiefs to their role of "military advisers...
General Nathan Farragut ("Nate") Twining, 55, now the No. 2 man in the Air Force under Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg. A second possibility: General Ben Chidlaw. 52. head of the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs...
...Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United Nations as a member of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, he teamed with Senator Arthur Vandenberg to guide the Marshall Plan and other key foreign-aid programs through Congress...
...Alben Barkley's first acts as vice-president was to reverse Vandenberg's ruling. The Michigan Republican marshalled the Republicans into coalition with the Southerners, and got the 64-vote rule reinstated...