Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
...Army for exhibiting too much freedom of the press. Some of its news and feature material had sounded too much like the rumblings of the new German nationalism (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week the Zeitung, the "New York Times of Germany," had its freedom curbed; by order of General Lucius Clay it became virtually a house organ of the military government...
Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...
...press of the world had been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They...
...formed in 1915, is in effect the Du Pont family's own investment trust, in which the Du Ponts own or control 79,859 shares. Christiana owns 27.42% of the common stock of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which, besides making explosives and Cellophane, owns 22.67% of General Motors and 60.17% of Remington Arms...