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Elwood Richard Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to an Irish-American mother and a Spanish father. He attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pa., University of Maryland, College Park , and Georgetown University .
The 1961 Washington Senators season was the team's inaugural season, having been established as a replacement for the previous franchise of the same name, which relocated to the Twin Cities of Minnesota following the 1960 season, becoming the Minnesota Twins.
Owner Elwood Richard Quesada once wondered why he needed to pay players who did not belong in the majors and later agreed to a ten-year lease at D.C. Stadium—a move that would come back to haunt the Senators. In 1963, Quesada resigned and sold his stake in the club to Washington stockbrokers James Johnston and James Lemon.
The XIX Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. The unit's last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force based at Biggs Field, Texas, where it was inactivated on 31 March 1946.
Elwood R. Quesada: 1 Oct 1947 31 Oct 1951 4 Commanding General, Tactical Air Command, 1946–1948. Special Assistant for Reserve Forces, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, 1948–1949. Head, Joint Technical Planning Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1949.
In 1951, incensed by reports that high-ranking officers like Air Force lieutenant general Elwood R. Quesada were retiring into lucrative industry jobs long before the statutory retirement age, at a time when reserve officers were being involuntarily ordered to active duty to fight the Korean War, Congressman James E. Van Zandt attached an ...
From 1 to 7 January 1929, Spaatz along with fellow Air Corps officers, Captain Ira Eaker and Lieutenant Elwood Quesada, both of whom would later become senior United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) generals, established an aviation record by keeping the airplane Question Mark in the air over the Los Angeles vicinity for over 150 hours. For his ...
The Mosquito made a series of flights, including one rolling climb on one engine. Also present were US General Henry H. Arnold and his aide Major Elwood Quesada, who wrote "I ... recall the first time I saw the Mosquito as being impressed by its performance, which we were aware of. We were impressed by the appearance of the airplane that looks ...