Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briggs, now 59, is not in the best of health, lives in Florida except in the summer, when he goes to Detroit on business and to watch the Tigers. Second in command at Briggs Mfg. Co. is William Patrick Brown, vice president, who was paid a $75,000 salary last year, $15,000 more than Mr. Briggs...
...meanwhile the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, is said to have given his word to Mr. Baldwin that if His Majesty's Government, in forcing their "ultimatum," as it is now called, upon the King, should resign, Mr. Attlee would refuse a command from the Sovereign that he become Prime Minister. This is telephoned to the snuggery. Over cocktails the strategy of the King and Mrs. Simpson is planned...
...Stanley ("Old Sealed Lips") Baldwin and louder cheers for his political foe Winston Churchill, who has got 60 M. P.'s to sign with him a round robin telling the King that if he accepts Mr. Baldwin's resignation Mr. Churchill is ready to obey a command to become Prime Minister and his King's Men will support...
...19th Century matured, seagoing boats outgrew the Hudson. Railroads killed the canal. But since Albany sits at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent...
Lamented Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "That amazing voice is gone, perhaps forever. Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson...