Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries. His appointment brought praise even from New Jersey's Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes. From the tight-lipped Hague organization: no comment. From Leon Henderson: "It's terrible to be the world's best economist and be known only for your rumba...
...British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
When the bombs came down on Berlin last week (see p.30), one casualty was Professor Albert Speer's big Ministry for Armaments and Munitions in Pariserplatz. A Swedish correspondent reported that suave, slick-haired Albert Speer rose to the occasion, gathered his staff around him and declaimed: "Gentlemen, we will not take it to heart that our dossiers are destroyed. It will teach us to have even less red tape in our department...
Annapolis Trained. All of the flag officers who rule the waves-with one thin exception-are Annapolis trained, † That exception is Rear Admiral Albert B. Ran dall, ex-skipper of the Leviathan. No com bat commander, he is a member of the Merchant Marine Reserve and comman dant of the U.S. Maritime Service in the War Shipping Administration...
...march on Rome slithered forward. Despite mud, mountains and fresh men brought down from the north by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the Allied armies worked into position for a wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...