Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which are today available to Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. Even General William Crozier, boss of the Army's Ordnance in 1917, would have jumped at the chance of obtaining as much or as good equipment as the U.S. Army's Ordnance chief, General Charles M. Wesson, is able to provide today...
...serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment in any war industry in the community in which...
...Army's case. After the Marines adopted the Garand, Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson declared that the report completely vindicated the Garand. When the report first came out he showed only that portion which called the Garand the best of the semiautomatics. General Charles Macon Wesson, too, talked as though the report proved all that he and his Ordnance Department had claimed for their creation...
...three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson, Major General Charles Macon Wesson. Earlier, visitors and workmen had strolled through Radford's 4,400 scarred acres, inspected its 639 small and scattered buildings, seen demonstrations of escape chutes (see cut) for quick slides to safety when fire and powder get together. But what pleased everybody most was that they had beaten a schedule...
...civilian engineers and executives whose companies make military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson...