Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest by his close associates. As long as dividends were paid to the public's A, the family's B controlled the company. Last year the dividend on the A was omitted. B lost control and able Colonel Deeds was called in by the directors to take command. Only one new director was elected: President Gordon Sohn Rentschler of National City Bank...
...while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told you you could command this ship?', or words to that effect." Of this charge, the accused was acquitted, but for the first offence, of which he was convicted, the defendant was sentenced to a demotion of 50 numbers...
That they were squaring off at the biggest Protestant question of a century doubtless did not occur at once to the little group of Baptist laymen who met with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Manhattan one night in January 1930. They knew that in Christ's command. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," lay the largest task of Christianity. Good businessmen, they and Mr. Rockefeller knew that gifts to missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people...
There is no reason why Harvard's next President should be a scholar by profession; there is every reason why he should be a scholar by instinct. Any man who lacks genuine sympathy with the best kind of scholarship or who does not command respect for his own intellectual attainments is disqualified for holding any high position in a university. The suggestions for making a business man President and leaving educational policy to the Deans are on the wrong track...
...talk to scan the Soviet record: Russia's 15 Red Years began with a prelude on Oct. 26, 1917 when slender, semitic, smouldering-eyed Leon Trotsky (né Bronstein) harangued the existing Petrograd workers' Soviet (council) into passing a resolution that Trotsky & Friends should take supreme military command, replacing Alexander Kerensky's wavering authority in Petrograd...