Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intentionally got lost. Each time he winged unerringly back to the field. Just as he was doing so the last time, Pilot William W. Lewis of the Western Air Express plane carrying the Explorers Johnson became lost unintentionally ten miles away. With only the conventional radio equipment at his command, Pilot Lewis did not find his course again. He smashed into a mountain...
...opposition party the Republicans of Congress did not do themselves proud on the President's message. Said Senator McNary, Republican leader of the Senate, "A strong document that will provoke some controversy." Said Representative Snell, Republican leader of the House: "A very strong and outspoken speech which should command the attention of the country." Equally vapid were the comments of most other Republicans, of most Democrats. Senator Ashurst, one of those caught offside on the constitutional amendment question, vaguely described the message as "apples of gold in pictures of silver...
...proposals submitted to Congress on Tuesday have been carefully considered by him and will meet with the approval of all well informed students of public administration. It is to be hoped they will command the necessary support in Congress. If adopted they will mark the beginning of a new era in the conduct of public business in Washington...
...think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist record of so many years is against him in Moscow. We forecast that Dr. Kung will soon become Premier of China to relieve Generalissimo Chiang of some of his responsibilities and leave him in full command of the Army...
...position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what it is to the Duke of Windsor. By "money" they understood the unstinted millions which a Hitler or Stalin has at his command, plus unstinted hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers to give such money the reality of power If this was haggling, it was the haggling of two Caesars, one of whom, Chiang had conquered China and the other, Chang had inherited and lost Manchuria-today the Japanese-puppetized Empire of Manchukuo...