Word: zandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World Wars, an ex-National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars...
...statement dark with implications, Van Zandt demanded a full-scale investigation of "the unusually large purchases of aircraft [by the Air Force] from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Floyd Odium, a contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company of which Louis Johnson was, until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel...
...Then Van Zandt sighted squarely in on the long-cigar-shaped silhouette of Con-solidated's six-engined B-36, backbone of the Air Force's strategic bombing force. Since Louis Johnson sank the Navy's supercarrier six weeks ago (TIME, May 2), and with it the Navy's hopes for a piece of the Air Force's long-range bombing mission, the Navy has stepped up its attacks on the ability of the B-36 to carry out its mission. Armed with a secret and rambling, anonymous memo which had been prepared...
...chiefly told Wright what to do and what not to do were 1) General Robert E. Wood (retired), Sears, Roebuck & Co. chairman; 2) Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara, Chicago investment broker; Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin's Secretary of State; William Campbell, Wisconsin industrialist...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...