Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME, March...
...behind. Finally last week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral could be guilty, Admiral Bailey would...
Last week the horny-palmed gentlemen of the Claque were worried, for the whisper was that they would no longer be wanted after Herbert Witherspoon takes command at the Metropolitan (TIME, March 18). The Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque...
...year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability...
...islands, from Macedonia and Thrace. Venizelos had no stomach for civil war. For all the shooting, the revolt ended with only 100 dead on both sides. The Government, however, promised to execute three times as many. Last week Venizelos, his second wife and a score of the high command fled from Crete to the nearby Italian island of Kasos, then on to the bigger Italian island of Rhodes off the coast of Turkey. Though he was still alive and safe, the world was last week writing Venizelos' political obituary. In Athens the crowd cheered winning General Kondylis and Premier...