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...this, the President jerked his friend, white-haired, spectacled Admiral Harold R. Stark, out of his job as Chief of Naval Operations (since 1939) and sent him off to London. There, with his four-star rank, he will command U.S. Naval forces operating in European waters (almost none). The change gave Stark's operations functions to boot-tough, 63-year-old Admiral Ernest Joseph King...
...addition to being a stark military necessity, it's also a way forward to a great dignity and more secure status and recognition for working people. If this war means anything at all, it means broadening our concept of democracy to include men having an understanding and some control of their workaday lives...
...their heads together. Field Marshal Sir John Dill remained behind to continue the discussions after the Prime Minister went home. He and Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (who returned to England) had had long discussions with the U.S. Army's General Marshall, the Navy's Admirals King & Stark, the Army Air Forces' Major General Arnold. Henceforth the fighting plans of the two nations would be made concertedly, at least in theory...
...Taylor Stark, now professor of German and tutor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, taught at Smith, N.Y.U., and in Madrid before coming here...
...recently General George C. Marshall, Army chief, and Admiral Harold R. Stark, Navy chief, entered the White House, went in to see the President. They had a most urgent matter to discuss, said they. The President was all ears. No, insisted the commanders, Harry Hopkins must be present to hear it. Hopkins was summoned. When he was seated, Chiefs Stark and Marshall turned to the President and said in chorus: "Hopkins must...