Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain and France on one side and the Soviet Union on the other. Intended as a policy and lawmaking body for the four-power occupation of Germany, the council had degenerated into little more than a launching site for propaganda rockets. Making more propaganda, Russia's Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky took a pre-arranged walkout (TIME, March...
...Berlin one day last week, the Allied Control Council was, as usual, deadlocked. For two hours, Russia's Marshal Vasily D. Sokolovsky kept being disagreeable. Then, suddenly, he rose. "The Control Council," he said, "no longer exists as an organ of government. . . ." He walked out of the room, followed in a body by his 16-man staff. Said General Lucius D. Clay: "A deliberate discourtesy...
Selection of 1948 Class Day Committee executives, in charge of arranging farewell ceremonies for seniors, was announced yesterday by First Marshal Ray A. Goldberg '48, following deliberation by the Permanent Class Committee...
...succeeded by a shrieking little man named Nikolai Yezhov, who wanted to get back at the world for the years he had spent in bitter poverty. He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU. Next he purged Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and practically the entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal...
Even so, Tories faced this week's North Croydon by-election with trepidation. In 1945, their man had just squeaked in by 607 votes against strong Labor and Liberal opposition. And Liberals were again entering a candidate, glamorous war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, whose "damn the government" platform would tend to sap Tory strength...