Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...
Here Come the Kings. Among the crowd of curious Berliners in front of the Allied Control Authority building, in Berlin's Potsdamer Strasse, the name of France's General Pierre Koenig caused excitement (Koenig means king in German). "Where's the king?" cried a little four-year-old girl. "I want to see the king...
...Buicks, Cadillacs and Maybachs, the captains and the kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's Koenig, they sat down to a hard bargaining session. The meeting, though suddenly called, had not required much preparation: the conference room had been kept scrubbed and polished-just in case the military governors, who had not used it for 23 weeks, might come back. Nor had the delegates needed much...
...Truro last week, the annual convention of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, drew up its demands for 1949 wages. First & foremost was a whopping general increase of $2.56 a day over the present $7.64 basic rate. There were also carefully scaled demands for men who work at the coal face. Explained one union official: "It's a new type of policy we've adopted, with emphasis on the actual production of coal at the face . . . It's all bent towards increased production for the industry...
...applauded the words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...