ARMY & NAVY: Flippant Philosopher

ARMY & NAVY

As if it were so much raw meat, politicians in & out of Washington last week sank their teeth in the strange case of Major General Johnson Hagood who, for speaking flippantly of WPA, was fortnight ago summarily relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area and ordered to his home (TIME, March 2).

A South Carolinian, nephew and reverse-namesake of Brigadier General Hagood Johnson of the Confederacy, Johnson Hagood was graduated from West Point. Later he taught philosophy to the cadets at the Military Academy, where philosophy has mostly...

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