Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yanks Are Coming. The American League was full of old familiar faces-and the rookies hardly had a chance. The Yankees had veterans in every spot but one-pitching. The new Joe Di Maggio (TIME, April 8) had his old home-run habit; Charlie ("Muscle Man") Keller was still denting the fences; and underrated Tommy Henrich was still hitting well...
...came, the battle lines were drawn up. The opposing generals were U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther v. General Motors' Charles E. Wilson, U.A.W.'s Richard Leonard v. Henry Ford II, U.A.W.'s Norman Matthews v. Chrysler's K. T. Keller. An air of tension hung over Detroit as citizens waited for the firing of the first shot that would be heard in every U.S. home...
...guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major Gen eral Keller E. Rockey, commander of the III Amphibious Corps, radioed a message to the U.S. commander in chief in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer...
...Corps' commander, rugged sy-year-old Major General Keller Emrick Rockey. veteran of World War I, Haiti, and Nicaragua, had bossed the 5th Division at Iwo Jima. His China mission, as he saw it: clean out the Japs, secure the ports for the arrival of U.S. ships with Chinese...
Farther south, in the strategic Shantung peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...