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Mar 28, 2024 · Marshall Plan, formally European Recovery Program (1948–51), U.S.-sponsored program advocated by Secretary of State George C. Marshall to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive.
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May 22, 2017 · On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Memorial Church and delivered an address that changed the world. The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of one of the largest and most successful international aid programs ...
The son of a coal merchant, Marshall was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on 31 December 1880. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1897, graduated in 1901, and took a commission as second lieutenant in the United States Army in 1902. By 1917 he had served in the Philippines and at several stations in the United States, including two ...
Dec 16, 2009 · The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, for whom it was named, it was crafted as a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure heavily damaged during ...
George Marshall American film director who, during a career that spanned more than 50 years, proved adept at most genres, with comedies, musicals, and westerns dominating his oeuvre. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Marshall dropped out of college and worked variously
