Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...role as warrior-king in World War I, Albert once wrote to France's famed Marshal Joffre: "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans, so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense...
White-haired Judge Albert Reeves, 75, mounted the bench, and the crowded courtroom was hushed. "The defendant will rise," intoned the marshal. "What say you, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, as to count one [espionage]?" In a firm voice the foreman replied: "Guilty." And to count two [stealing government documents]? "Guilty." Judy sank back, chin in hands, no longer the "simple little girl in love" that Archie Palmer called her, but the convicted spy with "the agile little Swiss-watch mind," as the prosecution called her-a trusted employee who had used her job in the Department of Justice...
Died. Colonel Harry Cooper (ret.), 52, onetime Secret Service agent (1921-42) and part-time personal bodyguard to four Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt), wartime provost marshal in the CBI theater who uncovered a $10 million air-smuggling ring operated by Army Air Forces men and local racketeers; by his own hand (.45-caliber automatic); in Baltimore...
Recipient of the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship is Daniel B. Ray '49 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Second Marshal of his class, Ray graduated in February from Harvard College with highest honors in mathematics. While an undergraduate he was captain of the Varsity wrestling team, and a member of the Band and Glee Club. This Fellowship provides for European travel...