Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blade of Armor. The First began that battle. Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson and his First Army landed at Algiers on Nov. 9, and they set forth at once for Tunisia. Because they could not know what kind of reception they would get, they were long on offensive weapons, short on transport. Nevertheless they threw "a couple of brigades and a blade of armor" toward Tunis. They traveled in two columns. One reached Mateur, the other Tebourba, 20 and 18 miles from Bizerte and Tunis respectively. By then the advance forces had outrun transport and air support...
Reticent Man. The First's commander, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, is a formal, frugal, unglamorous Scot who has been somewhat eclipsed for the outside public by the brilliant commanders above and around him in Tunisia, and for his own troops by his brilliant juniors within the First Army. He speaks fluent French, and his French subordinates like his Scottish mentality...
Wild and Angry Man. Kenneth Anderson has the delicate job of commanding various attached troops, both French and U.S. So far he has won their loyalty...
...Burnt Cork, owned by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), Jack Benny's radio stooge...
Paternalism. In Kansas City, Police Chief Harold Anderson campaigned for a ground-hugging patrol wagon so that drunks could be lifted in with less effort...