Word: maitland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is the American Broadcasting Station in Europe. . . . We Americans are here to join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe -and to our enemies. . . ." He warned against premature action, promised that Gen. Eisenhower from England and Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson from the Middle East would jointly announce the invasion...
...clock the scene in Gallery E 15, where the famed Maitland F. Griggs Italian paintings hung on special exhibition, was serenely normal: gallerygoers quietly strolled over the cork floor, paused, peered at small pictures invisibly screwed to the walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions...
There was no strike. Explained an anti-Fascist spokesman, the republican Action Party's Prince Caracciolo: "We had to give in to precise orders from General [Sir Henry Maitland] Wilson...
Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
Another front-line fighter from the Fifth who won: professional bantamweight Champion Marshall Higa, Hawaiian-born of Jap parents. (For news of another Hawaiian hero, see ,p. 16.) From General Sir Henry Maitland (";Jumbo") Wilson down, the brassiest hats of the North African Theater were among the 80,000 who saw and cheered the six-day finals. Up to officials in Washington is their proposal: that the eight amateur champions be sent to the U.S. to fight the best amateurs on the home front...