MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee.

In 1945, near the conclusion of World War II, General MacArthur gave his personal pins to his Chief Engineer, General Leif J. Sverdrup.

He gave control of Australian forces to MacArthur, directing Australian commanders to treat MacArthur's orders as coming from the Australian government.

MacArthur also gave a particularly chilling performance as baby-faced opium dealer " Johnny Lubin " in The Untouchables episode, " Death For Sale ".

As Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, MacArthur also gave immunity to Shiro Ishii and all members of the bacteriological research units in exchange for germ warfare data based on human experimentation.

MacArthur gave Ridgway a latitude in operations he had not given his predecessor.

In 1987 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation gave the university near the South Campus for future expansion.

After MacArthur gave Brereton the authorization he sought at 10: 15 a. m., the bombers were ordered to land and prepare for the afternoon raid on Formosa.

A compromise reached between the Chief of Naval Operations and General Douglas MacArthur in January 1931 gave the land-based Air Service the mission, while the Navy was to defend the fleet.

John F. MacArthur has stated that through Adams ' book Competent to Counsel Adams gave the Church " an indispensable corrective to several trends that are eating away at the Church's spiritual vitality.

General Douglas MacArthur gave the following address to members and veterans of the 69th at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City via short-wave radio from Manila in the Philippines, on January 24, 1940:

New Directions ' authors have won numerous national and international awards, including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the PEN / Faulkner Award, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature ( Octavio Paz, Kamau Brathwaite ), and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

A meeting between MacArthur, Nimitz, and President Roosevelt helped confirm the Philippines as a strategic target, but had less to do with the final decision to invade the Philippines than is sometimes claimed.

General Douglas MacArthur called the WACs " my best soldiers ", adding that they worked harder, complained less, and were better disciplined than men.

However, he had been in the Philippines less than two weeks when MacArthur sent him to Australia " for twelve precious days " to finalize plans for use of Australian bases in the event of war, disrupting his attempts to organize an effective air force.

On 13 September 1942 MacArthur ordered parts of the 32nd Division to Papua New Guinea even though they had less than two months of training.

With Pulitzer prizewinners and MacArthur Fellows leading its liberal-arts programme, the relative newcomer ( founded in 1891 ) has proved more than a match for its illustrious Ivy League rival.

This made clear to MacArthur the war would be more than just a few months in duration.

The magazine sold more than 13. 5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages.

Charts depicting annual operations and passenger enplanements are in appendix C and D. In the year 2005 MacArthur Airport had 173, 135 total operations ; during this year 1, 055, 832 passenger were enplaned, 7. 07 percent more than 2004.

Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US $ 4 billion since its inception in 1978.

After the surrender of Japan, the American occupation authorities arrested Homma, and he was extradited to the Philippines at the express order of General Douglas MacArthur so that he could be tried by an American military tribunal rather than the International Allied War Crimes Commission tasked with prosecuting Japanese war-time leaders for war crimes connected with starting the war.

Homma's wife appealed to General MacArthur to spare his life ; her pleas were denied, though according to William Manchester in American Caesar, he ordered Homma shot, rather than sent to the gallows, the latter being considered the greater dishonor amongst military men.

While General MacArthur had more Australian than US forces under his command in 1942, it has been claimed that he nonetheless decreed that all Australian victories would be reported as " Allied victories ", while American victories would be reported as American.

General Douglas MacArthur declared all places of prostitution off limits in an attempt to counter the spread of sexually transmitted diseases on March 25, 1946 as by then more than a quarter of all American GIs in the Japanese occupation forces had a sexually transmitted disease.

After the granting of independence to the Philippines in 1946, no coins were minted for the Philippine Republic until 1958, other than a small commemorative issue honoring General Douglas MacArthur in 1947 ( 50 centavos and one peso, minted in San Francisco ).

By the time of the Potsdam Conference however, General Douglas MacArthur — as commander of Allied land forces for the proposed invasion — was insisting that: the total Commonwealth land forces involved should be only three divisions ; a combined Commonwealth corps should be formed and that it would operate as part of a US Army ; it should use only US equipment and logistics ; it should be kept in reserve rather than taking part in initial landings and ; it should not include Indian Army units, due to " linguistic and administrative complications ".

MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award.

Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series ( more than 1 million copies ), Twelve Ordinary Men, ( more than 500, 000 copies ), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.

MacArthur was released from Shelton Abbey prison on 17th September 2012, after returning from temporary release a day earlier than expected.

Rowell pressed Blamey to ask for additional drops but lacking aircraft MacArthur told Blamey " air supply must necessarily be considered an emergency rather than a normal means of supply " and that he was to find other ways to meet his needs — meaning native carriers.

In September, the Navy announced its intentions to convert three transports into escort carriers, but this was not done after MacArthur observed that the loss of three transports would delay his reinforcements by more than two months.

The Philippine Division was to have two complete U. S. regimental combat teams in place by January 1942 to provide General Douglas MacArthur with a modern, trained mobile reaction force, while freeing up Philippine Scouts for rounding out other units.

Other areas, including India and Hawaii remained officially under separate commands, and in practice General Douglas MacArthur was in complete control of Allied forces in The Philippines.

One major point often omitted from the debate ( though Costello covers it thoroughly ) is the Philippines, where MacArthur, unlike Kimmel or Short, had complete access to all decrypted Purple and JN-25 traffic could provide ( indeed, Stinnet quotes Whitlock to that effect ), and was nonetheless caught unprepared and with all planes on the ground nevertheless, nine hours after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Detroit Mayor Roman Gribbs touted the project as a complete rebuilding from bridge to bridge, referring to the area between the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario and the MacArthur Bridge, which connects the city with Belle Isle Park.

During filming, the makeup process for Olivier took two and a half hours, but after it was complete, he thought he neither looked like himself nor like General MacArthur.

" During the same interview, MacArthur projected he would complete his commentary series within another five years, some 35 years after beginning.

MacArthur rejected them outright and ordered his staff to draft a completely new document.

The MacArthur draft, which proposed a unicameral legislature, was changed at the insistence of the Japanese to allow a bicameral legislature, both houses being elected.

Yet in late 1945 and 1946, there was much public discussion on constitutional reform, and the MacArthur draft was apparently greatly influenced by the ideas of certain Japanese liberals.

The MacArthur draft did not attempt to impose a United States-style presidential or federal system.