Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight Eisenhower will be heard from, at secondhand, from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...
...included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...Captured in Japan Gestapo Colonel Joseph Meisinger, whom Lee identified as the "Brutal Butcher of Warsaw." Colonel Meisinger obligingly signed: "I have surrendered today to Clark Lee, Bob Brumby of Mutual Broadcasting and John A. Bockhorst of News of the Day Newsreel...
Reactions differed at the first showing. Goring exclaimed: "That's the type of film we used to show our Russian prisoners." Streicher sat on his chair's edge, clasped and unclasped his hands. Field Marshal Kesselring's face blanched. Hans Frank, the butcher of Poland's Jews, stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth and gagged. Ribbentrop left the room with head bowed. But he walked straight to the dining room...