Word: alberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who were for him as second-best to Roosevelt, and those who worked with Willkie for his own election to the Presidency. Of the score of men beginning with Campaign Manager Ralph Cake who had done most work for and with Willkie in his 1944 campaign, only one, Albert D. Lasker, was last week in the Roosevelt camp. All the rest were working for Dewey. Senator Joe Ball (see below) had led the rival cam paign for Harold Stassen of Minnesota, whom Willkie disliked even more than he did Tom Dewey...
...boats have come back to the Atlantic, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander warned last week. Running out of new weapons, Hitler has tried to resharpen this old and blunted...
Louis Woods had gone back to the Pacific (to be commander of the fourth air wing there) when the Navy finally handed down its decision, but everything was ready. Promptly the Marine Corps announced that its seafaring air group commander was barrel-chested, 44-year-old Colonel Albert D. Cooley, veteran of Bougainville. Colonel Cooley will never become an admiral: the Marine carriers will be manned and commanded by Navymen. But he will boss a potent striking force: several squadrons of gull-winged, bomb-bearing Vought Corsairs, the first to be put in carrier service. This week his pilots were...
...does. Jennifer Jones proves that she's got the versatility deserving of an Academy Award, and Robert Walker is pleasant when he's not trying to be cute. Albert Basserman rounds out a first-rate cast in a first-rate piece of cinema, simply conceived, beautifully executed...
...break the Gothic Line (by capturing Rimini), was making slow prog ress across a lacework of canals and rivers. Home-front strategists who had talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...