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Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
What Longstreet had not known was that at dawn Little Round Top was defended by only a few men of the Union Signal Corps, that it was then a weak point in the Union line. Late in the morning a Union officer discovered that this most important spot had been overlooked; Union troops arrived to defend it only a few minutes before Longstreet's Texans stormed up its slopes...
...week's end the convention created a new national commission proposed by President DuShane, gave it $20,000 to defend the schools. Some of its purposes: to investigate attacks on schools, textbooks and teachers, probe education's enemies, investigate and expose subversive teachers. The convention also...
Most charitable explanation of Wodehouse's conduct came from his daughter in London. "I make no effort to defend my father," she said. "He is one of those guileless men who take people at their face value so long as they are pleasant. ... I know it is idiotic of him, but that's the sort of man he is. I wish I could stop...