Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
...always backed him up. During the campaign in France, says Ike, "Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Brooke took occasion to inform me that they also were prepared, at any moment I expressed dissatisfaction with any of my principal British subordinates, to replace him instantly." This unity of command, says Eisenhower, was one of the great achievements...
...Blue high command has succeeded in exploiting the "seven dwarf" underdog angle--reports of "dismal" and "discouraging" practice sessions have been filtering out of New Haven all week...
...World War II, Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart came into contact with many of the captured generals of the German High Command. His own reputation as a military authority-he was the foremost British advocate of defensive warfare-had been somewhat flattened out by the success of the German Panzers, but talking with the generals Captain Liddell Hart was in his element. For one thing, most of them had read his books. Once they opened up they talked well-and with the wisdom of hindsight...
With "Macbeth" Welles was in full command again but again with unusual obstacles. It was made at Republic Studios (home of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry) but on a budget much smaller than that given to horse operas. Welles could not hire any "name" actors for either their experience or box-office, so he chose his cast from radio actors. They didn't ask large salaries and could give beautiful readings of the poetry. He was allowed only one set, so he chose to accent the primitiveness of the characters by setting Inverness in a hollowed mountain. He was allowed...