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Chris CausleyDate
Sep 11, 2023Notes
Time Magazine Monday, Aug. 06, 1951
Everybody agreed that Brigadier General David J. Crawford was doing a fine job as head of the Army's big Detroit tank arsenal. But, on the side, he had been doing some things no officer should do, though they might have passed without notice in the Administration's mink and Deepfreeze civilian set. Traveling to Washington on an Army expense account, he twice stayed free in hotel suites kept by firms that held Army tank contracts. He had built himself a couple of nice, new sailboats from discarded materials at the arsenal, got the keel for one of them from an obliging steel company. He had also used Army trucks to haul the stuff out to his home. Last week, for "failing to meet the high standards required of an officer," the Army bounced West Pointer Crawford out of his command and gave him the stiffest penalty short of court-martial: a public reprimand, to be entered on his record.
