Word: hq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...
...usual, there seemed to be no worry about paying the check. From anonymous sources came $528,000 to buy London's topnotch Westminster Theater for Buchmanite theatricals. And as a continental HQ, the Group acquired (for $250,000) the sumptuous, turreted Palace Hotel in the Swiss resort town of Caux, high above Lake Geneva. Renaming it "Mountain House," the Buchmanites moved in last summer and say they have kept it filled to its 700-person capacity ever since...
...item was $580,000 spent last fall by President Dart to move United-Rexall's headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles. This move was part of the bargain he made with United: if he could move HQ west, he would stay at $75,000 a year, instead of taking the offered presidency of Montgomery Ward and Co. at $150,000. The trade gossiped that the move was dictated by Dart's second wife, movie starlet Jane Bryan. But Dart had a more hardheaded reason. He simply thinks that in Los Angeles' pleasant climate his staff would work...
...southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany, it worked. Thorez presided at the opening of the glassworks and Albi greeted him as its savior...
...Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...