Word: eisen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
Mouth v. Brain. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's chief of staff, forthwith called a press conference of his own. Growling that General Eisen hower would tolerate no insubordination, General Smith then spoke as one professional soldier practically never speaks of another: "[Patton's] mouth does not al ways carry out the functions of his brain. George acts on the theory that it is better to be damned than say nothing-that some publicity is better than none...
Forgetting Is So Easy. General Eisen hower himself realized that "deNazification" was easier said than done. Said he in a report on the occupation this week (see FOREIGN NEWS) : "It is not easy for the local Military Government Officer to dismiss the only waterworks engineer in his city because he was an active Nazi. The decision must be made, however. . . ." The hard fact was that many U.S. officers in Germany refused to make the decision. Many believed, with George Patton, that there was no point in trying to make...
...theory of occupation was that an Allied commission representing all four powers could treat Germany as one country under one government. On paper, the arrangement was perfect: General Eisen hower for the U.S., and Russian, British and French members yet to be named would clear all common questions, send common directives to the four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also...
Lieut. General William Simpson's Ninth Army was so fresh and fit that it was almost going stale. Its front was jam-packed with men and supplies. Every day the Germans were strengthening the maze of defenses between the Roer and the Rhine. The Russians were waiting. Eisen hower could not wait any longer...