Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...Army's judge advocate general announced that the U.S. had spent $10,000,000 paying for damage done by G.I.s in foreign countries since the end of World...
Tempered Anarchy. Lady Pamela's concern for her father's future was occasioned by a historic event. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Governor General of India, was leaving his post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
Naval evacuation is an old story in British history. In the Napoleonic campaigns alone, says Author Divine, 19 forces were evacuated (including the famed rescue of General Sir John Moore's army from Corunna). At two points on Gallipoli, the evacuations were executed so admirably that the entire force of 83,000 soldiers was brought off with only half a dozen casualties. But Dunkirk was not the result of expert planning. It was a last-minute improvisation, stamped by "complete and utter absence of red tape." It depended chiefly on the horse sense of hundreds of independent skippers...