Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...
...capital by selling 600,000 shares of preferred stock to present stock holders, including his dominant Transamerica Corp., the unsubscribed balance to the public (TIME, May 13). After the private offering to common stockholders hit a stone wall, the underwriters (Ladenberg, Thalmann, Otis & Co. and John J. Bergen & Co.) called it a day for the duration of the panic...
Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...
...limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization, a specialist in communications, a believer in preventive mobilization. Last February, Defense Minister Denis substituted energetic Major General F. F. 0. Michiels as Chief of Staff in place of less pro-Ally Lieut. General Emile Van den Bergen, whose kidney was not for a "lastman" defense...
...Berlin. Ward speaks American and wisecracks American. Of the blackouts in Copenhagen month ago he cracked: "Here all is darker than the Republican mood after the November election. . . . The streets of Copenhagen are blacker than Father Divine." Of English reverses in Norway he remarked facetiously: "Charlie McCarthy's Bergen is the only one of that name not entirely encompassed by Germans." Back in Berlin May 1 he joked about British efforts to save cloth: "London . . . theatre managers have already stripped their chorus and show girls down to their epidermis. They've solved the costume problem by presenting their...