Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
...virtually certain to have such an army for the first time in its history. With the possibility by no means remote that a military hero may be elected President in 1948, it is none too soon for patriots to begin reconsidering this danger. An examination of the nine generals who have occupied the White House is inconclusive but reassuring...
...Best & the Worst. Julius Goebel, Columbia University law professor, and his wife Dorothy, Hunter College history professor, present such an examination in Generals in the White House, an able, scholarly, cautious study of nine very different Presidents. As an analysis of the would-be military dictator in the office of Chief Executive, it fails through simple lack of subject matter. The U.S. has produced no Caesars, Napoleons or Cromwells...
...nine U.S. general-Presidents have included some of the best and some of the worst. They have been called butchers, tyrants, militarists, imperialists, but so have the lawyers, the statesmen, and the politicians who got to the White House...