Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Tito's Belgrade,' despite the fact that French, not English, is overwhelmingly the second language-the demand for TIME was so great that Yugoslavia's leading newsdealer kept asking again and again for 1,500 copies a week on a no-return basis...
Down through the centuries, Britain has delighted to honor its victorious commanders with money and peerages. The Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill's armored ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, collected spectacular titles, estates and cash fortunes for their exploits. After World War I, Field Marshal Haig and Admiral of the Fleet Beatty received earldoms and ?100,000 apiece...
...that Jews had gone over "from defensive to offensive action." But Britain was bitter. Secretary Hall bluntly warned Palestine's Jews that they could expect no help from London if violence was to be their policy. Hall also announced that Palestine's mild-mannered High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Gort, had resigned because of "ill health." Gort actually was ill, but his resignation increased the tension...
...decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
Died. Wincenty Witos, 71, leader of Poland's Peasant Party, three-time Premier, member of the present Polish Government; of pneumonia, culmination of a long illness begun in a German concentration camp; in Cracow. Wise, independent self-educated Wincenty Witos teamed with Marshal Josef Pilsudski and Ignace Paderewski to form the Polish Republic after World War I; later forced into exile by the reactionary Pilsudski, he became the martyr of Polish peasantry, returned to his people during the 1939 crisis, became their best-loved, most trusted statesman...