Word: eral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long last the French leaders in Algiers completed a formula for unity.. The final, seemingly immovable obstacle between General Charles de Gaulle and Gen eral Henri Giraud had been the issue of Army control and reorganization. Now the Committee of Liberation pushed aside the obstacle...
...Other V.M.I, alumni: Lieut. General George H. Brett, head of the Caribbean Defense Com mand; Major General Thomas T. Handy, Chief of the General Staff's Operations Division; Major General William P. Upshur, Commanding Gen eral of the Marines' Department of the Pacific; four more major generals; 18 brigadiers. Lieut. General Patton started at V.M.I., finished at West Point...
...Bureau was transferred in 1939 from the Treasury to the Executive Office of the President, this is true. But it is only the starting point, the excuse, for Harold Smith's real assignment. If he had the title that fits his job, he would be called Gen eral Manager of the U.S. Government...
...said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep I'll be ready for war again." But his doctors thought that the first U.S. lieutenant gen eral to be injured in World War II would be out of action for several weeks...
...Railroad signed a private bond-selling deal with the potent Wall Street underwriters, Morgan, Stanley & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission forced Erie to cancel the contract, and to open bidding to all comers. Thus the ICC joined hands with the SEC and the Fed eral Power Commission, both of which four years ago ordered competitive bidding on the sale of utility bonds. But the Commission's action meant more: it set tled for a time Wall Street's old fight over private v. public bond sales...