Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
...working politician, he has turned his attention to consolidating his position in his own party. Long ago, in 1936, he had begun to build a Herter machine, in the shabby old Republican Club on Boston's Tremont Street. The club became Herter GHQ, and after the election, the engine-block of the state organization. With most of his Republican peers (Saltonstall, Weeks, Lodge, Martin) removed from the local scene, Herter has already been able to lay to rest most doubts about who is boss...
...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
...their big projects, the brothers have only a small staff of 30 employees working in a 14-room office. But the staff works with all the precision of an army's GHQ, directing 30 to 40 different subcontractors so skillfully that they amaze the passing thousands with their logistical skill...
...From his GHQ at Abbasiya Barracks early one morning this week, flying squads roared into Cairo, rounded up 62 sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely...