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Anderson's victim was Rear Admiral Homer N. Wallin, 59, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. Wallin led the fight to prevent promotion-and thus bring automatic retirement-of Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, a brilliant, freewheeling Navy engineer who developed the atomic submarine. Secretary Anderson inherited the Rickover mess and the senatorial protests over the obvious injustice. Anderson examined the facts, disregarded Wallin's advice, and convened a special selection board which advanced Rickover to rear admiral. (He was confirmed by the Senate last week...
Meanwhile, Navy Under Secretary Charles Thomas asked Navy departmental heads to report detailed facts on their procurement plans. Some of the admirals replied with vague generalizations. Thomas issued a stern order for precise detail. On the second round, all complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound...
...reply to protests by the law's opponents, William J. Wallin, chancellor of the Board of Regents, declared last month that there would be no "witch hunts...
...outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers who labored under...
Western Union Telegraph Co. last week announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal...