Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First significant stop of the Presidential special was at Charleston, S.C. There shortly after midnight, General Johnson Hagood, recently ousted from his Texas command because he spoke of WPA "stage money" (TIME, March 9), boarded the train by previous invitation from the President. Next afternoon they conferred. After a two-hour session, the President announced that General Hagood would have a three-month leave of absence. Meanwhile in Washington Major General Frank Parker was ordered to Texas to take over General Hagood's old command...
...abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...this point the command again rings in memory: "Get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding." In the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged...
General Hagood's remedy for existing ills seems very sensible and constructive, but, of course, the whole affair will only serve to tear down confidence in our Congress and our Army high command instead of serving the worthy purpose which it should have served...
...first to strive, without discrimination of sex or race, affluence or position, to produce not merely an intelligentsia but a cultivated nation"); 4) a bureaucracy manned largely by unpaid volunteers; 5) "the vocation of leadership" supplied by the Communist Party; 6) the cult of science (unlike those "in command of most other states, the administrators in the Moscow Kremlin genuinely believe in their professed faith. And their professed faith is in science"); 7) "anti-godism"; 8) the emergence of a new morality ("the recognition of a universal individual indebtedness" to society). These features, in the Webbs' opinion...