Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
Pontiac and all the other 41 divisions would go right on because the division heads are, in effect, a general staff for production in themselves. At the top is Charles Erwin Wilson,* 55, who gets $151,000 a year plus bonuses. White-haired, slow-talking, he bossed G.M.'s conversion to war, is now guiding it back to peace. In the U.A.W. strike against G.M., it is Charlie Wilson who will sit down and face the union across the bargaining table. Sloan has never done the actual bargaining with the U.A.W. An engineer by training, C.E. stepped into...
...tour have not yet appeared on the cover of TIME (right now we have 49 covers showing probable future newsmakers all ready to put on the press). And some of these traveling portraits never will be printed. One of them is Baker's painting of the late Erwin Rommel; another is Chaliapin's portrait of Field Marshal Siegmund List. For these covers were painted months ago - when the Nazi tide was at full flood and it seemed one or another of these enemy brasshats would have to make TIME'S cover some week...
Magna cum Laude: Wayland Colelman Griffith, William Edward Keller, Charles Thomas Noonan, Deniel Perking Smith Paul, Thomas Erwin Phipps, Jr., and Guillermo Cornelio Sanchez...
...journalistic meteor was Kenneth Langley, 16, an auburn-haired, apple-cheeked high-school student. He sold Erwin Canham, the Monitor's shrewd and scholarly editor on a kid's eye report on UN CIO. His column has appeared in the Monitor under such headings as: "Boy Reporter Offers Proof China Will Be Strong Nation." Kenneth got off to a slow start. Racing back & forth between his classes and the Opera House a block away, he filed 500 words of stiff schoolboy prose to Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover...