Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental philosophy to end the depression seems comparatively clear. The government must cease its threats to private initiative. It must use every force at its command American business to make money. Having made a fondle attempt to solve the problem of unemployment by radical programs and federal priming of the industrial pump, the administration must now encourage the normal course of business enterprise. Only by thus inducing business to stand on its own feet can the Roosevelt regime hope to achieve a permanent and satisfactory solution to the problem which every day thrusts itself more sharply into the life...
...return for a contribution of $100 to the Los Angeles "Protective Order of Police," British Author Hugh Seymour Walpole received a gilt card guaranteed to command special police courtesy anywhere in the West. After a few experiences with the card. Author Walpole asked the city attorney to investigate the "Protective Order of Police...
...because of its prevalence among our leaders today. Your editor will recall that Jesus of Nazareth didn't attempt to "extract the virtues from existing institutions." Quite the contrary, he fought the two most powerful of these institutions with all the physical and intellectual force which he could command. These two institutions were the Money-changers and the Sacrificial Meat Trust. His fight against these institutions went so far that Jesus didn't even stop at using physical force against them, despite that fact that he generally condemned the use of such force...
...four men replaced, three have been assigned to warships, while one has been transferred to a position at the Naval War College in Newport. Commander Raleigh C. Williams has been made executive officer of the U. S. S. Texas; Commander Charles S. Alden is now at the Boston Navy Yard, supervising the construction of a new destroyer, which, when finished, will be under his command; Commander Ralph S. Wentworth is now at the New York Navy Yard, doing a similar job; and Commander Edward W. Hanson is stationed at the Naval War College...
...George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington's adopted son, it was natural that Robert Edward Lee should enter his country's service. At West Point he stood second in his class, never got a demerit. In the Mexican campaign he quitted himself so ably that his commanding officer, General Scott, referred to him as "the very best soldier that I ever saw in the field." Though often under fire, nearest he came to death was when a nervous U. S. sentry's bullet passed between his left arm and his body, singeing his uniform. After his Mexican...