Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Anna Marie Lederer Rosenberg decided to answer the letter by phone. In New York she put in a call to Defense Secretary George Marshall. "What's your answer, Anna?" asked Marshall. "Any request of yours to me has always been a command," said Mrs. Rosenberg...
...face of such criticism, and also because it now had more funds,
the Air Force last week rejuggled its command to give its stepchild
Tactical Air Command equal status with Strategic Air Command
(long-range bombers). Under the new setup, TAG will be commanded by
able, pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 58, one
of the Air Corps' oldtime hell-for-leather pilots,
...went up and made the deal and my first question was, 'Are you men surrounded?' Then they gave us coffee and we came on into the command post...
...Cavalryman Budenny had been a hero of the civil war of 1918-21, but not much had been seen or heard of him since 1941 when the Nazis plowed through the armies under his command. Why had the Kremlin rulers decided to remove Budenny and his massive mustaches from naphthalene powder (Russian equivalent of mothballs)? Best guess: Budenny symbolized patriotism as distinguished from Communism, and the Kremlin was again whipping up the love of the fatherland which had so heroically stirred Russia in 1941-45. To the troops in Red Square Budenny roared...
...these discussions lately, the United States has taken the lead in favor of an integrated German armed force, under a unified command only on the higher levels. It has generally had the support of a majority of delegates on the point, but that has not been enough to overwhelm the French objections...