Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Ferry warned the French and British on either side of him, reported the story to his corps commanders. He did not consider the story of sufficient importance to go over the heads of his superiors to the supreme command, nor did his neighbors to the right and left...
When the low yellow clouds of chlorine actually appeared the irate French General Staff pounced upon General Ferry, then in another part of the line, and removed him from his command...
Ignoring his youth will be more than ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building...
...said evenly that he had read Mr. Harmon's letter because he considered that it contained a valuable suggestion. In brief, Airman Harmon's plan is to equip the League of Nations with a volunteer army of aviators, and each aviator with a bombing plane, ready at command to blow the night lights out of the capital of any nation which started...
...Ochs, 71, is still in supreme command of the Times. Virtually all the stock -and there are no bonds or mortgages-is owned outright by him, his immediate family and his employes, past and present. He retains his Chattanooga paper because it was his first. Once he was tempted to buy and merge other papers. He took over two Philadelphia sheets and made the Public Ledger, which he sold to Magazine Tycoon Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...