Word: command
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander I, harassed king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, received the resignation of Premier Nikola T. Uzunovitch last week, as the shaky coalition supporting his Cabinet collapsed amid a bedlam of local party squabbles. By His Majesty's command onetime Minister of Public Works Velja Vaounkitchivitch formed a seemingly most unstable Cabinet upon a coalition of Radicals and Democrats, parties hitherto bitterly opposed...
Significance: The Navy is said to have developed a secret of gunnery control which makes for long-range accuracy and thus assures the continued building of super-dreadnaughts with big guns. Said Capt. William Cluverius, in command of the West Virginia: "It was the finest material performance yet recorded in guns, planes and machinery. All officers are convinced this firing off Cuba will exercise a profound effect on the naval development of all nations...
...Mary did not seem embarrassed or say, "Shh!" Her face lighted, she nodded, and with a royal finger discreetly indicated to Sir James a door. He should go through, and turn thus and thus. Then he would find Nurse Knight and should tell her by the Queen-Empress' command to show him the Sleeping Princess...
...earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales that...
When famed Manhattan lawyer Samuel Untermyer reached Bangkok, Siam, recently, on the world cruise of the S. S. Belgenland he was greeted with no lilting stanzas, but rather by an imperial "command" to appear at the Siamese Court and be received in audience by perky little King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March 8, 1926) and his placid, portly Queen...