Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should they have the chance to become citizens? Why didn't we bring the late Field Marshal Keitel and General Jodl here to teach at West Point on the art of war? It makes as much sense...
...Aviv, Palestine's modern all-Jewish city, streets are customarily named after Zionist heroes (Theodor Herzl, Baron Rothschild, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, etc.). Last week, when the city fathers pondered street names for a new suburb, a councilman suggested: Why not name the streets after the Ten Commandments...
...months before Allied soldiers breached Festung Europa at Normandy, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt stubbornly argued over who would occupy the industry-rich Ruhr. After the invasion, Churchill's claim was reinforced by the top-level political and military decision to give Field Marshal Montgomery command of the sweep along the lowlands toward northeast Germany. Roosevelt finally yielded, let Churchill have the Ruhr...
...notable guests. Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, famed New Dealer, opened the convention by crying out that labor power "has grown to the point where we find one man defying the Government and recklessly tearing down the life of the nation." Three days and 44 speeches later, even Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, wryly worked Topic A into his address. Said Smuts: "Labor unions have developed a power which places them in a position not only to wage war on big business, but on society itself...
Comeback. Zhdanov came back to Stalin's favor the hard way. As the Germans approached Leningrad there was no demoralization in the city. Zhdanov, Marshal Klimenty Voroshilov and Leningrad's "Mayor" Peter Popkov turned the tide with a ringing declaration which sent 400,000 Leningraders to the fortifications. Before the 29-month siege ended in 1944, one of the great stories of human endurance had been written...