LC control no. | n 2005084097 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Howley, Frank L., 1903-1993 |
Variant(s) | Howley, Howlin', 1903-1993 |
Birth date | 19030203 |
Death date | 19930730 |
Place of birth | Hampton, N.J. |
Place of death | Warrenton, Va. |
Affiliation | United States. Army New York University |
Profession or occupation | Generals College administrators |
Found in | Howley, Frank L. Your war for peace, c1953: t.p. (Frank L. Howley, Brigadier General, A.U.S., inactive) LC database 2005-11-18 (hdg.: Howley, Frank L., 1903-) Wikipedia, September 5, 2013 (Frank L. Howley; Frank Leo "Howlin'" Howley was a United States Army Brigadier General and subsequently an administrator at New York University; Howley served as commandant of the American sector of Berlin after World War II, when the city was broken and in dire need of being restored; he became known as Howlin' Howley because of his interminable and intractable interactions with the Soviets; he was born February 3, 1903 in Hampton, New Jersey; he graduated with a B.S. degree in economics from New York University; in the 1930s Howley formed his own advertising agency based in Philadelphia called Frank L. Howley & Associates; he entered the Officers Reserve Corps in 1932 and was called to active duty in 1940; his first assignment was commanding officer of an Air Corps ground school, and he was promoted to captain; in 1941 Howley chose to pursue the cavalry and was made operations officer of the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas; later he was made executive officer of the Third Cavalry Mechanized at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel; during World War II, he was made director of the Military Government Officers' Division based in Shrivenham; in Normandy he landed on Omaha Beach on D plus 4 with a mixed American-British unit; he was named Vice Chancellor of New York University, and served in that capacity between 1950 and 1969; he wrote several publications and books, including The Frank L. Howley Papers, 1944-1950 (1950), Berlin Command (1950), Your War for Peace (1953), and Peoples and Policies: A World Travelogue (1959); Howley died on July 30, 1993, in Warrenton, Virginia) |
Associated language | eng |