Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same week that he made a civilian a brigadier general, the President broke a prized tradition of the Army-that the crack Corps of Engineers shall be headed by a West Pointer. (West Point was founded in 1802 as a school for engineers exclusively.) Franklin Roosevelt gave the job, vacated by able but aging Major General Julian Schley, to a civil engineering alumnus of peaceful University of Delaware...
...appointment, which most Army men had marked out for Wage & Hour Administrator (and West Pointer) Phil Fleming, engineer soldiers flicked no eyebrows. For General Reybold, even if not a West Pointer, rates high with his fellow officers, and at least his son, Captain Franklin B. Reybold of the Coast Artillery, is a graduate of West Point...
...Slated to be the new G4: Engineer Colonel (and West Pointer) Raymond A. Wheeler...
Boss of Army tank design and procurement is big, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel John Kay ("Jack") Christmas, whom Army Ordnance rates tops among U.S. tank experts. No West Pointer, Jack Christmas is a mechanical engineer (Lafayette College) who got interested in tanks while he was an artilleryman in France during World War I. From tank testing at the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground, last week he was shifted to Washington, given charge of a new Ordnance section. The new section's province: tanks, other armored vehicles, and the all-important development of self-propelled "tank chasers" (mobile...
Through the winter and early spring, General McNair made himself scarce around GHQuarters, batted around the country in Army planes looking over all kinds of outfits. No doctrinaire and no hell-roarer, West Pointer McNair still found plenty of fault, learned plenty about 1941-model U.S. officers and soldiers. By spring he had 21 officers on his staff, each a specialist in his branch, and G.H.Q. inspectors began to drop in on Army posts from Boston to San Diego, to see how things were going...