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unusual facts about George C. Marshall



Anne C. Conway

President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.

Anson S. Marshall

On the fourth of July, 1874, Marshall, his wife and son were setting up a picnic lunch at Penacook Lake in West Concord when his wife heard the sound of bullets over their heads.

Arthur Marshall

Arthur R. Marshall (1919–1985), scientist, ecologist and Everglades conservationist

B-24 Liberators in Australian service

While Australian pilots flew Liberators in other theatres of war, the aircraft was introduced into service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1944 when it was suggested by Gen George C. Kenney that seven heavy bomber squadrons be raised to supplement the efforts of the 380th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).

Battle of Pork Chop Hill

A 1959 movie, Pork Chop Hill, based on S.L.A. Marshall's account of the battle, presented a semi-fictional account of the engagement, in which Lt. Clemons was portrayed by Gregory Peck and Lt. Russell by Rip Torn.

Bob McMath

He received the George C. Griffin Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Dean James E. Dull Administrator of the Year Award, and in 2004 was named an honorary alumnus.

Elaine Tettemer Marshall

Marshall was involved in the struggle over the estate of J. Howard Marshall II, which included Stern v. Marshall, a case that reached the United States Supreme Court.

Forrest Pogue

Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.

Fuad Isgandarov

Finally, Fuad Isgandarov involved in the seminar on the Role of National Military Strategy organized by George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in 2006.

George C. Howard

George C. Howard (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

George C. Pratt

After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.

George C. Royal

Royal was born in Williamston, South Carolina, in 1921, the oldest boy of nine children of African-American and Native American descent.

George C. Stoney

He worked at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side of NYC in 1938, as a field research assistant for Gunnar Myrdal and Ralph Bunche's project on Suffrage in the South in 1940, and as an information officer for the Farm Security Administration until he was drafted in 1942.

George C. Whipple

Whipple was born in 1866 in the small town of New Boston, New Hampshire, which is located a few miles due west of Manchester, New Hampshire.

George C. Wolfe

From 1993 to 2004, Wolfe served as artistic director and producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, where in 1996 he created the musical Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, an ensemble of tap and music starring Savion Glover; the show moved to Broadway's Ambassador Theatre.

George C. Yount

His two daughters, Frances Yount with her husband William Bartlett Vines and her sister Elizabeth Ann Yount came west with the Walker-Chiles Party of 1843.

George Crawford Platt

The George C. Platt Bridge (formerly known as the Penrose Avenue Bridge) in Philadelphia was renamed in his honor.

George E. Stratemeyer

One of Stratemeyer's favorite cartoons showed him sitting at his desk surrounded by pictures of his eight bosses (Stillwell, Mountbatten, Gen. George C. Marshall, Chiang, Arnold, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Major General Daniel I. Sultan, and FDR), all of whom could give him orders in one or another of his capacities.

George Griffin

George C. Griffin (1897 - 1990), served in various positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology

George Magoun

George C. Magoun (1840-1893), Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

George McKee

George C. McKee (1837–1890), U.S. Representative from Mississippi

George Paterson

George C. Paterson (1891–1945), American football player and engineer

George Pendleton

George C. Pendleton (1845–1913), U.S. Representative from Texas.

George Stoney

George C. Stoney, New York University professor of communications, the father of public-access television

Hugh T. Broomall

In 2009 he attended the Senior Executive Seminar, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and the Senior Executives in National and International Security program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

James K. Marshall

Marshall had the brigade's Moravian band perform for the men to heighten their morale after the first day's carnage.

Jamestowne Society

Jamestowne Society is an organization founded in 1936 by George Craghead Gregory for descendants of stockholders in the Virginia Company of London and the descendants of those who owned land or who had domiciles in Jamestown or on Jamestown Island prior to the year 1700.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

L. L. Marshall

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

L. Scott Rice

:2009 George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Lawson Army Airfield

Benning had many distinguished visitors during the war including Gen. George C. Marshall, Gen. Hap Arnold, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary.

Mari K. Eder

She is an experienced speaker and guest lecturer and has served as an adjunct professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, the NATO School, and Sweden’s International Security Command.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

Patrick J. Hurley

Hurley received a promotion to brigadier general in 1941 when the United States entered World War II, and General George C. Marshall dispatched him to the Far East as a personal representative to examine the feasibility of relieving American troops besieged on the island of Bataan.

Peter Marshall

P. J. Marshall (Peter James Marshall, born 1933), historian, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London

Richard Kidder Meade

Meade was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George C. Dromgoole.

Robert J. Marshall

During his leadership, he played a pivotal role in the merger of his Lutheran Church in America with the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In 1988, building on the outreach and dialogue that Marshall had worked on, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed by the merger of the relatively liberal Lutheran Church in America with the more conservative American Lutheran Church and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

Samuel S. Marshall

Marshall was elected to the Thirty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1875), and was the candidate of his party for Speaker of the House in 1867.

Sebastian Gorka

Previously, he was a policy expert of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense, founding director of the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security and adjunct professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Terry Dobson

After receiving a scholarship to play at Franklin & Marshall, he quickly failed out and trained for a summer with the New York Football Giants under Vince Lombardi, the line coach at the time.

Thomas R. Marshall

In October several men led by Duff Green demanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slavery faction.

Timothy P. Marshall

His first official tornado damage survey was in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1980 and his first hurricane damage survey was Hurricane Allen in south Texas later that year.

Tybee Island, Georgia

Fort Screven is most notable for one of its former commanding officers, General of the Army George C. Marshall, later the architect of the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Western Europe after World War II.

United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962

In the Republican primary, George C. Lodge, a former member of the Eisenhower administration and the son of Henry Cabot Lodge, defeated Laurence Curtis, the Representative from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in the Republican primary.

William Wolfskill

The party was a “dream team” of mountain men that included Jedediah Smith, the first American to cross the Sierra into California in the 1820s, Kit Carson and George C. Yount.

Window Water Baby Moving

Window Water Baby Moving was often screened on a double-bill with George C. Stoney's 1953 educational film, All My Babies.

WLRH

Although Huntsville is only the state's third-largest city, it has boasted for many years a large population of highly-educated, affluent professionals such as technicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs, mostly associated with the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal installation, NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and contractors.

World Chess Championship 1907

Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.


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David Tevzadze

From 1994 to 1996, he received training at various NATO education centers such as the NATO Defence College (Rome, Italy), George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), and Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, United States).