Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air unit at Yale and Mr. Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which he, still in his 'teens, was soon given command. In two months duty in the Dunkirk sector he brought down six German planes and a balloon. He was the only U.S. naval flyer to become an ace, that is, to bring down five or more planes. Returned from the War, Ace Ingalls received the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal...
Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay Jr., budget officer of the Navy Department, will command the Asiatic fleet...
Successful journalistic writing of the present time must be brief and to the point if it is to command any readers. The Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon in order to comply with this rule has abolished its editorial column, substituting letters from the student body on subjects of general university interest. As a result, any excess verbiage with which the editorial writers might have loaded the paper has been replaced by concise remarks of the individual student...
...only beginning to command recognition in the United States is Vlaminck. Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean have lent among other important pictures a characteristic landscape. Vlaminck depends on organization of light and shade, and his handling is always dramatic with a very free but sure technique...
...itch to play politics overcame him again in 1924 and he ably commanded the Coolidge western campaign. In 1928 he looked around for another Presidential winner. He looked at General Dawes and looked away. He looked at Secretary Hoover, saw his popular appeal, pitied his political inexperience. Again he took command, this time of the Hoover preconvention campaign, doing a miraculous job of amalgamating the heterogeneous Hoover following. After the nomination, Mr. Hoover begged him to stay on as Western manager. Reluctantly he did. There was less begging, less reluctance, to get Mr. Good into the Hoover Cabinet...