Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her stockings. The judge who heard his prompt confession observed that there was no necessity to "hurry things." But in a distinctly hurrying mood was the crowd which began gathering outside St. Joseph's jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests. After a four-hour siege, Sheriff Otto Theisen emerged from his smoky barricade...
...growing market to be weaned away from them by enterprising Europeans, American merchants have further demonstrated their amazing indifference to the future. Years of neglect and misunderstanding have opened a chasm between the two American whose felicitous closing will require all the diplomatic skill at Mr. Hull's command...
...President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. took command of a hodge-podge of subsidiaries that made alcohol, yeast and maraschino cherries. He had a fair share of the dwindling medicinal liquor business and 9,000,000 gal. of fine old whiskey which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
...American Federation of Labor has usually been able to command a majority of the House of Representatives. Its influence in the Senate is considerable. The announcement that the A. F. of L. would oppose unsound monetary policies cannot be construed, as is most of the opposition to the President's program, as being due to Wall Street influence...
There is, of course, a widespread use of the word "inflation" to cover various forms of credit expansion, but the issue of greenbacks or other money which is not backed by a metallic reserve is not likely to command a Congressional majority...