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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 month

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"New York Styles" for spring and summer: ad for Bedell's, a department store on 34th Street, from Pictorial Review, 1920.

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#vintage New York #1920s #vintage ads #Bedell's #vintage fashion #1920s fashion #old department stores #NYC department stores

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sesiondemadrugada · 6 months

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Travis Bedel.

#travis bedel

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omzumevin · 1 year

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#sana sığınmak her şeye bedel.

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uykucupandaa · 16 days

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Tam vazgeçtim olmaz artık diyorum sonra gözleri geliyor aklıma başa sarıyorum...

#postlarım #keşfet #blogum #kitapaşkı #geceyedair #kitapalintisi #ask #aşk acıtır #imkansız aşk #oğuz atay #gözleri ömre bedel #kapat gözlerini #gözler yalan söylemez #gözler kalbin aynasıdır

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random-brushstrokes · 7 months

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C. Durif Bedel - The False Teeth Workshop (ca. 1880)

#C. Durif Bedel #french art #genre painting #1880s

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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months

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I never realised before the loneliness and isolation of a commander at a time when such a momentous decision has to be taken, with the full knowledge that failure or success rests on his judgment alone.

- Lt.Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

General Dwight D. Eisenhower rose to that occasion with character and greatness when he made the fateful decision to launch D Day on 6 June 1944. But he couldn’t have done anything he planned without the support of his feared chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.

When Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower became commander of ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations United States Army) in June 1942 and began assembling his staff in London, the man he requested as his chief of staff was Brig. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, at the time the secretary of the War Department General Staff. But Eisenhower’s boss, Gen. George Marshall, balked. Smith had impressed Marshall with his ability to cut through red tape and perform necessary hatchet jobs – to get things done fast and well – and he didn’t want to let Smith go. But finally, on Aug. 5, Marshall relented. Smith arrived in London on Sept. 10. In his biography, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, historian Carlo D’Este wrote, “Eisenhower once remarked that every commander needs a son of a bitch to protect him and that the stone-faced Bedell Smith was his.”

Gustave Flaubert wrote, “You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies.” By that measure alone, Smith was not just a good chief of staff – he was a great one. Most people who came in contact with Smith hated and feared him – and with good reason. Smart, loyal to his bosses, articulate, incisive, and an excellent administrator, “Beetle” Smith was also intolerant, brusque, profane, rude, and ruthless.

Smith was also famous for his quick temper. Whether the result of his personality, or pain from a duodenal ulcer that occasionally forced him to be hospitalized, its volatility caused some exasperated senior officers to violate military protocol, bypass the chief of staff, and meet directly with Eisenhower to request transfers. Tellingly, Eisenhower tolerated that breach.

The position of chief of staff is often thankless. But it’s necessary. As one of the members of Eisenhower’s staff, Air Marshal Sir James Robb, later wrote, “Ike always had to have . . . someone who’d do the dirty work for him. He always had to have someone else do the firing, or the reprimanding, or give any order which he knew people would find unpleasant.” That someone was Smith and, whether or not he actually enjoyed that duty, everyone acknowledged that he was damned good at it.

Eisenhower often entrusted Smith to represent him in high-level strategic meetings, which led some people to remark that the reason Eisenhower did so was that Smith had a better strategic mind than his boss. Eisenhower’s esteem of Smith ultimately became so great that he told Marshall that if anything happened to cause him to be unable to carry out his duties as head of SHAEF, Marshall should, “after [General Omar] Bradley, select Bedell to take my place.”

Expanding on Eisenhower’s orders to have an “allied” command, Smith freely, and with great effect, utilized the technique of layering the different sections. Thus if one section had a British commanding officer, his deputy was an American, and vice versa. Smith also was a master of promoting informal communication channels, and his relatively informal staff conferences freed Eisenhower to concentrate on the most important or critical command decisions. Though problems did occur, that Eisenhower’s staff worked as smoothly as it did was a testament to Smith’s success as chief of staff.

#bedell smith #general walter bedell smith #quote #general eisenhower #eisenhower #second world war #normandy #war #D Day #DDay #leadership #planning #US Army

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possum-down · 1 year

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uagh finally finished this, hope the colors dont mess up but yar, drawing challenge! love different peoples interpretations of inklings and octolings and i thought it would be fun to try and draw a few of my favorites, ill put an empty template under the cut

designs featured, left to right, top to bottom: mine, @aeriona @dddeerbo @ryebreadedd @squid-seraph and @dogtoling