Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directors to pick Michigan-born Captain Clifford Anders Swanson, 45, specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments, to be surgeon general of the Navy, succeeding Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire. ¶Gave tea, dinner (black tie) and a night's lodging to South Africa's Field Marshal Jan Smuts, brought in General Eisenhower for the after-dinner talk...
...guilty or guiltier in the minds of the spectators were the witnesses: snaggle-toothed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, able and ruthless wartime commander in Italy; and tough, ugly Lieut. Colonel Herbert Kappler, the SS officer who carried out Kesselring's orders down to the last pistol shot...
...Left to right: Marshal S. M. Budenny; Colonel General K. A. Vershinin; Marshal I. S. Konev; Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff; Marshal L. A. Govorov; N. A. Bulganin, Deputy War Minister; Zhdanov; N. A. Voznesensky, Chairman of State Planning Commission; N. M. Shvernik, Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; G. M. Popov, Party Secretary; A. N. Kosygin, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers; M. F. Shkiryatov, Member of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; N. S. Patolichev, Party Secretary; A. V. Khrulev, Vice Minister of Armed Forces; A. A. Kuznetsov, Party Secretary...
...Price. In private conversations with the U.S.'s General Lucius D. Clay, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky had intimated Russia's willingness to 1) treat Germany as the economic unit envisaged in one part of the inconsistent Potsdam Pact and 2) greatly increase the permitted maximum level of German industry, now keyed to a potential annual steel production of 5,800,000 tons. (Wartime peak in 1943: 21,000,000 tons; depression low in 1932: 5,500,000 tons.) For this reversal of their position (previously the Russians had stubbornly pressed for lower industrial output) and for their agreement...
...Allied Powers this week were still trying to kill Hermann Goring. The one-time Reich Marshal's suicide had cheated the Nürnberg gallows; now fat Hermann's secret satellites were glamorizing his role of Nazi martyr by circulating a probably faked version of his dying "appeal to the German nation." The cleverly phrased document turned up everywhere - mimeographed, printed in the ancient Gothic lettering that Germans love, even as a wrapping for German meat rations. In it, Goring ostensibly invited his countrymen to sabotage the peace; justified bombings but weaseled on torture; said: "Try to forget...