Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Eye. In Atlanta, police, who had been looking for Al G. Moriarty for two years, found and arrested him when he announced his candidacy for Georgia's General Assembly...
Though most of Harry Truman's attention was centered on his message to Congress, he could no longer ignore the threatening storm clouds piling up over Europe. Early last week he called General Lucius Clay and his political adviser Robert Murphy home from Berlin for consultations on the Russian blockade (see INTERNATIONAL). Then tension in official Washington mounted almost hourly...
...Peak. Despite the price cuts early this year (later restored), General Electric Co. netted a record $54,602,339 on sales of $772,761,792 in the first six months, highest in its history...
...Died. General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing, 87, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. William Nelson Cromwell, 94, eminent New York corporation lawyer (founding partner of Sullivan & Cromwell); in Manhattan. One of the organizers of U.S. Steel, Cromwell was the last surviving principal (as general counsel) of the dubious New Panama Canal Co. that paid French engineering interests an estimated $5,000,000 "for canal rights in Panama, talked Theodore Roosevelt into buying them up for $40 million...