Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur complied. Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, began informing the Council in the most specific detail of the U.S. democratization policies. (At one point he read the names of nearly 200 Japanese organizations, apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through...
...represents no great strain of the imagination to call the new Courtney Burr production a Victorian melodrama, despite the fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...
...four-star veteran of the European campaign was coming home. General Courtney Hicks Hodges had flown the Atlantic, stopped briefly in Manhattan, then had flown to his native South...
...Georgian Terrace Hotel, Courtney Hodges and his bemedaled and beribboned entourage got out of their cars. A tall, grey-haired woman wearing a bright red hat and a corsage of orchids leaned forward as they passed. She called to the General: "Remember me?" The General's sunburnt face lit up. He stopped to give his wife a kiss-the first time he had seen her in 15 months. Then he climbed the platform to make the first of many speeches...
...Department announced that General Courtney Hodges' First Army was being redeployed to the Pacific by way of the U.S., keeping enough veteran units and personnel to maintain its battle record...