Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians, who had ventured out with two of their six battleships, the fast...
...Hammer) in 1914. During World War I he organized Bolshevik groups in Moscow, was exiled to Siberia, escaped and went underground in Petrograd. During the February Revolution he was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and collaborated with Lenin and Stalin. In 1922, during the Lenin-Trotsky split, Stalin replaced Molotov as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Molotov stayed on as Stalin's assistant, proved his loyalty during the Stalin-Trotsky struggle for power, thereafter became Stalin's most trusted assistant...
...plans), Subhas Bose is used to suppression. He has been interned no less than eleven times. Chubby, sickly, stubborn as an untrained elephant, and India's radical leader, Bose was elected president of the Congress Party in 1939, only to be ousted after a few months because he split it wide open over his opposition to Gandhi. Long ago most of his lieutenants had been interned, but the Government hesitated to touch him for fear of reaction. That Lord Linlithgow no longer cared about consequences indicated that the Viceroy had not much rope left to play...
...where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian, go back"), developed an admiration for Gandhi's saintliness when he was living in a mud hut next Gandhi's. As a firm believer in closer U. S.-British trade relations, he resigned from the Cabinet when Liberals split from the Government, over trade policy. As a close friend of Lady Astor's, he was damned as a member of the Cliveden Set during the appeasement crisis, like other members denied that there was such...
...continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney the 9-10 Wednesday night period on NBC's red network left vacant by Fred Allen, who goes to CBS in the fall...