Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stout wrote: "Germans like Paul Wohl and Prince Lowenstein start a campaign (in the New York Herald Tribune) to put over Erwin Bumke as a 'good' German with whom we could deal in confidence." [Author Stout also said: "In the anatomy of the German rattlesnake, the rantings of Hitler are merely the rattle; it is men like Bumke . . . who share their views and their disease, that carry the deadly poison of Pan-Germanism...
...have complete information about Germany's forces (at least 300 well-trained, well-equipped, well-led divisions of German troops, perhaps 100 "satellite" divisions of variable quality and fighting spirit). Allied staffmen, planning invasion, must assume that an unknown number of "hidden reserves" is available to Field Marshal Erwin ("The Fox") Rommel, recently appointed to direct the overall defenses of Europe, and to Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, apparently still commander in the threatened west...
...Monty may resume the chase of an old fox. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, according to reports from the Continent, is organizing a mobile army, intends to switch it, in the manner of Frederick the Great, against the various invasion threats as they arise...
According to Plan. But there was another reason. The General's men in the line were sure of one thing: Germany's soldiers and Germany's commanders, including Marshals Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring, had a great deal to do with the Allies' troubles. The Germans in Italy did not know that Germany had lost the war; they were fighting as shrewdly and fiercely as the British fought after Dunkirk...
...succeed Gerard Swope, and did, three years later. Writing about him at the time, FORTUNE called him "the least known" executive of a large U.S. company, duly recorded that its files contained but a few clippings on him, which had duly been filed under the name of Charles Erwin Wilson, then executive vice president of General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy...