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...urgent that he would not even tell who had sent him, although he agreed to write a name on a piece of paper and place it in a sealed envelope for Dewey's perusal. When Dewey ripped open the envelope, he read the name of General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff...
...From the wreckage of Pearl Harbor he built the greatest sea-air armada in history, and with cold will and intelligence led it to win the Battle of the Atlantic, break the back of the Japanese in the Pacific. Said his opposite number, Army Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall: "A master strategist...
...spring skidded around North Carolina, snow-topped Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch breezed down in his private plane for a visit with two old friends, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine in Pinehurst, Marshall's haven of retirement...
...next-door neighbor at Fort Myer, Brigadier General Eisenhower. Later, Ike dropped in to thank Marx. The toymakers other military friends include NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, General Omar Bradley, now a Bulova top executive, and General George Catlett Marshall. Even after they leaped into the headlines in wartime, Marx says, he was sure that the generals would be "forgotten like Bliss and Pershing," worried about the generals' financial future. In 1946, when he formed a cosmetic company called Charmore, Marx decided to help out some of his military friends by selling them...
Papagos was court chamberlain when in 1948 General George Catlett Marshall went to Athens to see what could be done to stop the Communist guerrilla army driving down from the north. "What you need," Marshall told King Paul, "is a supreme commander with enough gumption to lay down the law. You've got the right man here-Papagos." In six months Commander in Chief Papagos, with U.S. arms aid and the friendly advice of a U.S. team under General James Van Fleet, had licked the Communists...