Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
...stillness of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a crowd peering at the works of Matisse and Picasso, she clapped sharply for attention, gathered a little crowd about her, and began a speech. These paintings, she said, were: 1) "the product of diseased minds"; 2) "garbage masquerading as art"; 3) a racket imposed on the public. From her hearers, reported PM, came a warm spatter of applause...
...Harbor inquiry, General of the Army George C. Marshall got off by plane to Chungking and his new mission: to bring an end to China's civil strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put on official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government take over control of North China...
...humanity. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was not always engrossed in high strategy; he assisted in rounding up slave labor by order ing Polish homes burned. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, was involved in an order that babies born to Russian women on slave-labor trains be thrown from the windows. Albert Speer, Director of War Production, urged more SS brutality to accelerate the working pace of the slaves...
Died. Rear Admiral Albert Borland Randall, U.S.N.R., 66, ex-captain of the Leviathan, the Manhattan, and famed for rescues at sea; in Bethesda, Md. In 1939, after 40 years as a mariner, he retired. But not for long. War made him commandant of the U.S. Maritime Service...