Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheduled to sail from Bremen July 16 on her maiden voyage, and from Manhattan for the first time July 27. Primarily because of her speed she has been placed in a higher rating than any other ship afloat by the North Atlantic Conference of ship owners. Accordingly she will command a slightly higher minimum First Class rate than the $300 "crowded season minimum rate" of the Majestic, hitherto with the Leviathan highest in price and largest. So far as accommodations are concerned no radical
...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...
...Paris!" cried Foch when he assumed supreme command, "Paris has nothing to do with this matter! Paris is far away. We must stop the Germans where they are. We have only to say 'They shall not pass!' and they will not pass. . . . Three-fourths of the battle is won when the men know they are not going to retreat...
...Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series of testimonial advertisements so ingenious as to command the instant admiration of U.S. advertising men, to whom British advertising is often a source of amusement. The Harrods series was in fact posted on the bulletin board of the J. Walter Thompson Co., potent Manhattan agency...