Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that 'I wouldn't have missed this for anything...
...general and specific coverage of the convention hall, the speeches and political jockeying on the floor, the hotel room conferences, caucuses, the squabbling and horse-trading among the voting delegations, Senior Editor Otto Fuerbringer and the entire National Affairs staff, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley and his staff, and Chief of U.S. Correspondents David Hulburd, will be on hand. They will have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom in the basement of convention hall complete with teletype, television facilities,* and direct telephone communication with TIME'S New York and Washington offices, the press gallery...
...Devil's Work? As Ed Martin's attorney general, he banged head-on into Joe Grundy's industrialists. Under Duff's urging, Ed Martin liberalized workmen's compensation and unemployment laws (which Joe Grundy and the P.M.A. have always considered the devil's work), pushed through a bill to curb the discharge of mine silt into the Schuylkill River. When mineowners protested, redheaded...
...attacks that followed from the benches of the Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...
...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...