Word: morton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Backs: Gus Bigwood, Ed Buckley, Dave Goldthwatte, Mel Gordon, Ray Guild, Cliff Helman, Caleb Loring, Bill Lyle, Ted Lyman, George O'Sullivan, Guy Meli, George MacClellan, Greely Summers, Ephraim Takvorian, Rod Townsend, Henry Vander , Morton Waldstein, Ross Whittier, Nat Young...
Except for Prime Minister Churchill, Britain's defense forces have no supreme commander to coordinate the air, sea and land arms. There are air commanders for bombers, fighters, all under Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall. Chief of the home naval defense is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, under First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Under Sir Alan are six subordinate com mands: Southern, Aldershot, Northern, Eastern, Western, Scottish...
...fresh and more terrible battle, the King decorated Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet; Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, overseas commander of the R. A. F.; Major General Bernard Charles Tolver Paget who directed the "historic" withdrawal from Andalsnes; and 40 members of the armed services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers...
...couple of noggins of beer. At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton, whose stepdaughter he married in 1923. Same year he met David Sarnoff who raved so much about radio's possibilities that Trammell asked...
Senator McNary has the wise and cynical expression of an old bachelor, though he has been widowed once, is now married to the former Cornelia Morton, who was told of her husband's nomination while she was in a Salem grocery store. Said Mrs. McNary: "I couldn't believe it. Charles had wired me this morning that he wouldn't accept the nomination...