The Making of a Leader: George C. Marshall

Posted by on Mar 17, 2023 in | Comments Off on The Making of a Leader: George C. Marshall During the second weekend of September 1939, Gen. George C. Marshall, the newly elevated chief of staff of the U.S. Army, made an official “homecoming” visit to his place of birth, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. As a result, two strands of history stood adjacent on the front page of the local newspaper, the Uniontown Daily News Standard. One headline announced the Nazi invasion of Poland with the...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by on Mar 17, 2023 in | Comments Off on Editor’s Letter This April 3 marks the 75th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman’s signing of the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. Pennsylvania native and former Army chief of staff George C. Marshall, Truman’s secretary of state, first articulated the need to rehabilitate the economic structure of Europe following the devastation of World War II in a speech at Harvard...
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