Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news relegates them to obscurity. For instance, the Jack Benny cover story was ready for the printer the day the Wehrmacht moved into Poland and World War II began. That was too much competition for Comedian Benny, who was replaced by Poland's Commander in Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz.-Pearl Harbor, which happened on a Sunday, meant a complete recasting and re-writing of the "front-of-the-book." It also meant the removal of Walt Disney's little elephant Dumbo from the forthcoming Christmas cover. Dumbo was replaced by the sterner visage of General Douglas MacArthur...
Richmond K. Kane '22 will lead the procession of his fellow-alumni at commencement exercises in June, the Alumni Association announced yesterday. Kane's appointment as Chief Marshal maintains the tradition of honoring a member of the twenty-fifth anniversary class with the post...
...member of the New York law firm of Cadwallader, Wickersham and Taft, Kane was First Marshal of his class as well as captain of the 1921 Varsity football squad. After his graduation, the Navy and Marine veteran of World War I attended Oxford for a year but returned to Cambridge and the Law School...
...night before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
There was one discordant note in the Soviet welcome for Field Marshal Montgomery: an editorial in Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party, on the "suspicions and apprehensions that the backstage military and political activity of London and Washington continue to cause in progressive circles...