Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President made one appointment. He named John Foster Dulles, Tom Dewey's foreign-policy adviser, to substitute temporarily for George Marshall in Paris as chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly, thus reaffirming his faith in the bipartisan foreign policy...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...take advantage of the shorter run into Berlin. This week, as the fog lifted and airlift planes began full use of the new Tegel airstrip in the French sector of Berlin, Allied flyers lugged in a whopping 5,405 tons in one day. Said the Air Forces' Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about our ability to supply Berlin in the winter, or indefinitely, or forever...
Dave Beck-a man who has never been known to brawl himself-used violence as calculatingly as a general uses artillery. His teamsters could take care of themselves on almost any picket line. At one time he announced that hundreds of them were being trained in jujitsu and boxing for the sake of their health...
...Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Beck came to the Guild's aid. A mob of his hard-fisted cohorts surrounded the P-I building, beat up fleeing nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave Beck's gun? The shame...