Word: dille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombs, when a stocky figure in a soiled field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again and the next time victory will be ours...
...Francisco Chamber of Commerce's president, dark, mustachioed Marshall Dill, and young, Hollywood-handsome Vice President William Monahan, who replaced last year's silk-hatted management, promised a businesslike show this year...
...opening day last week, 123,000 paid to get in. Messrs, Dill and Monahan hoped the total figure for the summer would be 4,333,000 at least. Opening day paid admissions last year were 128,697; opening day three weeks ago at the 1940 New York World's Fair: 191,196. Other differences between 1940's two folksy fairs: San Francisco's is more compact, its attractions are easier to get around to, and it is less pretentious, prettier. It also has less debt...
...London and presently a new Chief of the British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand-for-Gamelin move, Mr. Churchill called on General Sir John Greer Dill, who was brought home from his command of the B. E. F. First Corps in France in April to be Sir Edmund's Vice Chief and standin. Sir John, 58 and Irish, is accounted the British Army's master of strategy and maneuver, in contrast to Sir Edmund...