Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Los Angeles two hardy perennials, a heat wave and a crime wave, tied for top local billing. The Scripps-Howard Washington News began to berate the Army for its slowness in demobilizing. Said Managing Editor Aubrey Graves: "Now that the war's over, the Army's fair...
In France Pertinax will write thrice weekly for Pierre Lazareff's France-Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also...
After World War I, as a temporary major and intelligence officer for Major General William S. Graves's expeditionary force en route to Siberia, he was one of a group entertained at a dinner by Jap officers. Eichelberger had seen no combat service in Europe, was short of medals...
They were impressed with more reason by the time Graves's expeditionary force was ready to go home. Eichelberger's restless inquisitiveness had landed him in many a tight spot.
Meanwhile his flair for finding out what was going on led him to the conclusion that the Kolchak regime, which the western Allies were then supporting, had no backing from the Russian people. Largely because of his finding, the Graves force was limited to guarding the railway, avoided a political...