Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end in London, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander announced that Britons had landed on Greek soil (presumably on some Greek islands) and he promised vaguely: "What we can do we will do." What the British could do was not much. In London there was some suspicion that the Greek war was a mere feint, intended to draw British strength from Egypt, paving the way for an Axis drive on vital Suez. The Italian attack was in fact no feint, but the British could take no chances. The Salonika campaign in 1915-18 required...
...First-Voter: Albert Einstein of Princeton, former citizen of the Reich, citizen of the U. S. for five weeks...
Arthur G. Billings 3G., Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, Burt Johnson 2G.B., Eric W. Johnson 1G., M. Rhoads Murphey III '41, Caleb A. Smith 3G., O. R. Stone...
Edward G. Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...debate he read a letter from Professor Albert B. Hart attacking the "artificial confusion of the plan itself." Lynch added that P. R. is a "complicated system of voting which leads to a drastic increase in the number of candidates...