Megalomaniacal Texans! John slammed the receiver on his desk. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Thornton's "megalomaniac" didn't even say anything about it, and directly refused his request to ask for someone, and dared to hang up his phone.

"Hmph, I really thought that with General Arnold's appreciation, and a big-name fellow (Robert Lovett, Thornton's recommendation to the Army Air Corps, currently the Assistant Secretary for Army Air Corps Affairs at the War Department, and was appointed Secretary of Defense by Truman in 1951) could not take me seriously."

John was really angry with Thornton this time. This kid is so blind that it's no wonder that Lieutenant General Meyer, the deputy chief of staff of the Army, was so angry that he would be court-martialed.

Thornton also didn't want to think about how he could have sat in the position of colonel of the Army Air Corps Command before he was 28 years old without John's help. Historically, Thornton was indeed the founder of the Statistics Control Office, but that was in 1942, and at that time the Statistics Control Office was nothing more than a small unit under the "Management Control Bureau" headed by Colonel Gates.

Although there is a suspicion of stealing the "limelight" from the other party, John has always believed that he still has "kindness" to Thornton. Unexpectedly, this white-eyed wolf was rampant, and he didn't miss his benefits at all. On the phone, he was in the same tone as a leader of a higher-level organ to send a grassroots officer, but what was even more infuriating was that he hung up the phone without saying a word.

People with ability are arrogant, and John is not unacceptable. But there is no such disrespect as Thornton. Originally, because this guy had served as the president of Hughes Aircraft Company in history, John still subconsciously regarded him as his own. Now, huh! He wanted to see if Thornton had offended him, and after he retired from the army (Thornton was swept away by the Army Air Corps as soon as the war was over, and the Statistics Control Office was disbanded), he could still mix in the California military-industrial circles!

How to say that sentence, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge; It's the villain's revenge, from morning till night. John doesn't think he's a villain, but he doesn't reach the height of a humble gentleman. Since Thornton didn't give him face like this, he didn't spit on himself and had the temperament to repay his grievances. Even if the Statistics Control Office was impregnable, he would have to dig a few big holes in it to let Thornton know how powerful he was.

When John began to think about how to trouble Thornton, there was no burden in his heart. Even he felt that he was already very "caring for the overall situation" and "soft-hearted".

If it weren't for the fact that Thornton's work in the Statistics Control Office was helpful to the development of the Army Air Corps (mainly for the development of Hughes Aircraft Company), he would have just shot out and let that guy get out. Even such a "bullish" figure as Hoover brought him down, and he went to a semi-official expert committee under the Department of Justice as a nominal adviser, not to mention a small Thornton.

However, "the death penalty has been forgiven, but the living sin is unforgivable." John didn't intend to end Thornton's political life in the military, but he would never let him continue to be so "proud". Historically, the reason why this ambitious and arrogant guy was able to stand tall despite offending countless people and become an irreplaceable and important figure in the Army Air Force was not because of his absolute control over the Statistics Control Department.

John has always liked to grasp the main contradictions, and he pays attention to not making a move, and as soon as he makes a move, he hits the key point, so that the opponent can't turn over. This time, he took direct aim at Thornton's cornerstone of power in the Statistics Control Division.

"Hello, Dean Dunant, I'm John, John Vanderbilt." John called Dunant, the dean of Harvard Business School.

"Hello! Mr. Vanderbilt! It's been a long time since I've been in touch, I heard that you joined the army, how are you doing?" Dean Dunant's attitude was very welcoming.

Can you not be enthusiastic, in these years, the American business community is not popular to hire professional managers, and Harvard Business School is far from being as "bullish" as later generations. John, who threw a lot of money into the academy with real money, is a rare big benefactor for them.

Not only are many of the college's research projects now funded by John, but even Dean Dunant himself receives a large stipend from FedEx (Dunant is a core member of the company's think tank team). In a way, it's not an exaggeration to say that John is Dunant's boss.

"Not bad. It's just that time is not as free as before. "John is a lot more human than Thornton. First, he cared about Dean Dunant's health, then learned about the development of the college in the past year or so (in fact, he took the initiative to provide opportunities for the other party to ask him to sponsor him), and then asked about the progress of the cooperation project (sea and land container transport) carried out by FedEx and the college in Houston, and finally turned to his main topic today.

"Dean Dunant, there's such a thing. I heard that the Army Air Corps has a partnership with our academy, and the academy has a training course for their people? John asked, seemingly casually.

"There is such a thing, but it is still being negotiated. Since the end of last year, it has been talked about several times. The first time a major general came, and the next few times it was a colonel named Charles Thornton. "Dean Dunant was a little unsure of what John meant, could it be that he had come to be a lobbyist for the Army Air Corps?

"It's not that the academy doesn't want to cooperate with the military, but the training fee they give is too small. You also know that we are a private university......" Dean Dunant preemptively vaccinated John.

How did he know that John heard on the other end of the phone that the cooperation had not yet begun, and his heart was already happy. Historically, Thornton has been able to run the Statistics Control Office smoothly from top to bottom because of its cooperation with Harvard Business School.

He first selected the cadets he liked from the officer preparatory school and asked them to join the Statistics Control Service. Then these newcomers will be sent to the training class of Harvard and Harvard Business School to receive the baptism of elite education. He also made it clear that every statistical controller must be qualified to complete a Harvard training course before taking up his post.

In this way, all members of the Statistics and Control Office have been screened to the same standards, trained in the same content, used the same style of language, upheld the same beliefs, and fulfilled the same mission, and the cohesion of the department is naturally not to mention. More importantly, this access to personnel prevented other generals from having access to the Statistical Control Service and established his absolute centrality in the department.

John was a little glad that his decision to let the Statistics Control Office come into being early was a crooked one. Historically, Thornton founded the Office of Statistics and Control (ICS) when the United States was already at war, and large numbers of young people were drafted into the military, including students at Harvard University. At that time, the business school was no longer able to carry out normal teaching, so it had to cooperate with the Army Air Corps, at least the military was not short of money at that time, and the training fee was enough to keep the college running.

Now, the United States has not yet entered the war, the Army Air Corps is far less well-funded than it was after the war, and the business school has not fallen to the point where there is no student source and no funding. As a result, Thornton's plan was stuck because of a small training fee.

This couldn't have been better for John. What he had to do now was to take this training institution into his own hands and dig up the cornerstone that Thornton used to control the Statistics Control Office.