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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...
Nobody paid much mind to A. B. ("Cyclone") Davis of Dallas, who runs for everything; to a politically unknown ex-West Pointer who buys radio time to demand an immediate declaration of war against Germany, Japan, Italy; to old Basil Muse Hatfield, "Commodore of Inland Rivers," who is campaigning for a five-ocean navy...
...hadn't heard them since long ago when he was a miserable Freshman with a deathly fear of taking cuts. But he could still remember perfectly how the lecturer had looked, sitting on the corner of the New Lecture Hall desk, driving home each point with gesticulations of the pointer...
This week in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention was told the official score to date on the aircraft industry's efforts in national defense, and its plans for future production. The speaker, Colonel John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and a West Pointer, knew what he was talking about. Excerpts...
...were two names that caught the eye of Army men with a thought for tradition. Upped to general officer's rank was Field Artillery Colonel Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian, grandson of famed "Stonewall" Jackson of the Civil War. Promoted to Brigadier General was Ulysses S. Grant III, West Pointer grandson of the Civil War general and son of the late Major General Frederick Dent Grant. General Christian has a West Pointer son in the Army. General Grant's three daughters are married to Army officers...