Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany Marshal Erwin Rommel told the press that tides and weather throughout April are the most favorable for invasion...
General Motors' white-thatched President Charles Erwin Wilson gave the House Committee on Postwar Planning a preview of huge G.M.'s huge plans for the future. The news: if all U.S. businessmen plan things the G.M. way, postwar production will be 50% higher than the prewar peak and almost as big-in terms of employment-as it is now. Wilson highlights...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, fresh from a tour of Nazi defenses in captive Denmark, paraded ceremoniously through Copenhagen. Stony-faced Danes lingered on the sidewalks long after the famed "Desert Fox" had passed...
Died. Arthur Henry Kudner, 53, able Manhattan advertising executive; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles, Calif. He was president of his own firm (eighth largest in point of billing), which he started in 1935 when he resigned from the presidency of Erwin Wasey & Co., taking six big accounts with him (including General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion...
...have not seen Prince Lowenstein since 1936 when he briefly called on me in Paris. I disagree with almost everything he said about Erwin Bumke in his letter to the Herald Tribune-and so wrote...