Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford...
Married. Composer Igor Stravinsky, 57, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (whose first wife died in 1939); and Vera de Bossett Sudeikine, onetime dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe; in Bedford, Mass...
...value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies on frontal assault. Military experts predicted last month, when he was first reported in charge of the offensive, that he would recklessly risk tens of thousands of men (but none of his own Cossacks). If Field Marshal Budenny rides into Helsinki this year...