Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Airways transport radioed an 11 p.m. "All's well." Then silence. At week's end, despite the greatest peacetime air search of the Atlantic, no vestige of the plane had been found. Aboard were a crew of six and 21 passengers, including Australian-born, battle-greyed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, 52, who commanded the Allied tactical air forces at the invasion of Normandy...
...servant of a succession of warlords, to each of whom he proclaimed his loyalty with tears streaming down his cheeks; when a more powerful rival appeared, Feng transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss, he was met by Tsao's private car. Cried Feng: "Heaven above, how dare I, little rascal, use my lord teacher...
Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...
Born. To Lieut. Zharko Broz, 22, son of Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz of Yugoslavia and his Russian-born wife: a son. Name: withheld by the censorship on Tito's family life. Weight...
...first duties will be to draw up an address book of the class. When completed, the book will be kept constantly up-to-date to serve as a perpetual file. "Our aim is to make '48 the best-informed class Harvard over had," Ray A. Goldberg '48, first marshal, stated...