marshall

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1. marshall - Noun

2. Marshall - Proper noun

Meaning

United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835)

a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law

(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank

United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959)

United States actor (1914-1998)

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If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. William Rehnquist

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out. Taryn Manning

A field marshall is born, not made! Erich Ludendorff

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. W. Averell Harriman

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use. Ken Livingstone

I see the significance of the Marshall Plan in the fact that probably for the first time in history a victorious country held out its hand so that the vanquished might rise again. Konrad Adenauer

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