Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow. At U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's Spasso House a gay party was breaking up when the news came. The shocked Ambassador telephoned Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who sped the word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring...
History's Man. Yugoslavs had just finished a day of dancing and singing in Belgrade's squares to celebrate their new pact with Russia. The news from America smothered every jollity. Marshal Tito's Government decreed a four-day closing of theaters, cinemas, concerts. It banned music and dancing in restaurants. Hour after hour people called at the U.S. Embassy to voice their sorrow: "We have lost our best friend...
...such a linking of the Allies could take place any day; they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command of all Elite Guard units...
...Last Ditches. But in other towns there had been last-ditch fighting. After the first few days, the Germans seemed to have lost heart and direction; Field Marshal Walther Model was said to have flown out. The Americans had a large-scale victory of annihilation: 176,000 prisoners had been taken; only about 30,000 German troops remained in the severed pocket...
...Beta Kappa Society, in its spring election meeting, held last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, selected Charles T. Noonan '46, of Lowell House and Ashland, Kentucky, as First Marshal of the Graduating Class and Leopold H. Haimson '46, of Adams House and New York City, as Second Marshal...