Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Office was burned, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...accompanying silent films at a local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
Died. Brigadier General Sir William Horwood, 75, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (1920-28). World War I Provost Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force in France; after a brief illness; in West Mersea, England. Grey-mustached Sir William's principles were as high as his bowler, his methods sometimes as narrow as his collar. He did not like the idea of female bobbies. In 1922 he cunningly waved away poisoned éclairs sent to him by mail, soon afterwards mistook some arsenious chocolate creams for an expected gift. He recovered-and succeeded in tracking down the insane sender...
...Germans in Yugoslavia seemed to be rapidly closing the dangerous Dalmatian gap in the wall of Axis Europe. Credit for this achievement went to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose command in northern Italy was recently extended to include Yugoslavia...
...march on Rome slithered forward. Despite mud, mountains and fresh men brought down from the north by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the Allied armies worked into position for a wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...