Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...
...YORK-Generlissimo Stalin has quietly carried out a shake-up in the high command of the Red Army, it became known tonight, in which Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, top Soviet war here, has been relegated to the relatively obscure command of the Odessa Military District...
...extent of the changes in the top level of the Soviet High Command was not yet fully known. However, it was understood that Stalin has carried out a through-going reorganization and that Zhukov is not the only commander to suffer a sudden change in status...
With a total enrollment of 30, 35 veterans and 45 civilian students, College ROTC under the command of Col. Mark McClure, USA, is in the process or returning to a peacetime four-year course ending in a commission in the Army Reserve Corps...
WASHINGTON--Hopes of Congressional Democratic leaders that the Senate's unwelcome OPA bill would go to conference for modification were bolstered tonight when the Republican House command split over what price control course they should pursue...