Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 3]

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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Philip Murray was one of the most important American labor leaders of the twentieth century. As president of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he played a pivotal role in the creation of industrial unions as well as the utilization of federal government support in the growth of unions in the United States. Philip Murray (May 25, 1886-November 9, 1952) was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on May ...

Simpson, William H. (William Hood), 1888-1980

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William H. Simpson was a United States (U.S.) Army officer who served as chief of staff of the 33rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) during World War I (WWI). He then commanded Camp Walters, Texas. During World War II (WWII) he was with the 35th and 30th Infantry Divisions and was a commanding general of the 9th Army from 1944-1945 and of the 2nd Army to 1946. From the description of The William H. Simpson papers, 1909-1980. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat rec...

Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976

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British army officer. From the description of Note of Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454594 ...

Hodges, Courtney H., 1887-1966

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General, U.S. Army. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to John Steinbeck, 1947 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775803940 Courtney Hicks Hodges (1887-1966), soldier and military commander, was born in Perry, Georgia. In 1904, after graduating from high school in Perry, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he failed geometry and had to leave after one year. He spent the following year as a grocery clerk ...

Patch, Alexander McCarrell, 1889-1945

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Johnston, Eric A. (Eric Allen), 1895-1963

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Motion picture executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eric A. Johnston : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481310 Material for biographical note taken from "The Eric A. Johnston Story" by Ralph P. Edgerton, 1979. (Copy located in The Westerners, Spokane Corral Records [Ms 141].) Eric Johnston has been described as ambitious, aggressive, and industrious. With a plethora of natural ta...