Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yokohoma a mob booed War Secretary Patterson, who had picked this unlucky moment for a Pacific inspection trip, until a provost marshal told them: "You are insulting a man who was a soldier before you were born...
Handsome, dignified Major Richard E. LoBuono, onetime provost marshal at the depot, had been called as a defense witness for Smith. Under triphammer questioning LoBuono began to amend his answers. Among the cross currents of his testimony was one which swirled close to Colonel James A. Kilian, the depot's bespectacled former commandant. LoBuono testified that he had been shaken by Kilian's threats. One of them: "I made you what you are today and I am going to hang you." Later, LoBuono said, he "had gained the impression" that Kilian "was trying to control witnesses...
...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
Tunnel of Fear. Little by little, top Nazi leaders learned to fear Martin Bormann. He had been made chief of the inner Gestapo that policed top Nazis. Reich Marshal Goring blocked up the tunnel that led from Bormann's Berchtesgaden house...
...Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, (weight: 224 lbs.) Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington, who was Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...