Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thursday: the grim little group of officers had agreed that Singapore could not hold. On the Sunday of Singapore's collapse, an aide-de-camp swam out to a Chinese sampan and sculled it back to shore. Aboard went the officers, headed by Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, Commander of the Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya. After nightfall the sampan slipped out of the harbor...
There had been friction between General Gordon Bennett and the British High Command. The Australian's dislike for Air Chief Marshal Sir General Robert Brooke-Popham was embarrassingly obvious. But Henry Gordon Bennett was a valuable soldier, and his supposed capture, obligingly confirmed by the Japanese, was a blow to the Allies...
...Government department's staff of 32 has suffered the, at least temporary, loss of five members because of the war, and a corresponding reduction in the number of courses offered. Associate Professors Rupert Emerson, Bruce Hopper, and Merle Fainsod and Faculty Instructor Lincoln Gordon have been called to government work in Washington and Teaching Fellow James King is now in the Army...
...April 1, the Most Reverend and Rt. Honorable Dr. William Temple, now Lord Archbishop of York, will become Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in succession to Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang (TIME, Feb. 2). His place at York will be filled by another left-of-center prelate, Dr. Cyril Garbett, now Bishop of Winchester...
...bosses: Major General Alvan Gillem Jr., who used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally, after various ups & downs, in solid with the Army high command...