Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tells his "early birds" that it is time for their morning exercises. He cracks a small joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...
...extremely well-equipped amateur station will represent the University on the air. There are two powerful 100 watt tube transmitters, designed to operate on a wave length of 75-200 meters. A complicated system of switching will permit the operator on duty to have at his command three different circuits, in addition to a 50 watt radiophone. Three separate receivers have been installed, which cover the entire range of wireless communication and will enable everything from experimental stations on 20 meters to powerful Transatlantic stations on 25,000 meters to be heard...
...Egypt, Mr. Chamberlain reiterated Britain's solemn determination to "regard as an unfriendly act any attempt at interference in the affairs of Egypt by another power, . . . to con- sider any aggression against the territory of Egypt as an act to be repelled with all the means at her command...
...That Admiral Rainier was not an obscure villain. In 1778, as a lieutenant in command of a sloop, he captured a large American privateer after a hard action in which he was severely wounded; soon after he was sent to the East Indies, rose steadily in rank to Admiral, retired, became a Member of Parliament and died leaving one tenth of his large estate to reduce the national debt of Great Britain...
Significance. The acceptance of the Experts' Plan last summer involved amendments to the Constitution, which in turn involved the securing of a two-thirds majority. A two-thirds majority of the Reichstag was 314; the Government could command, with the Socialists, about 260. It was clear that the Monarchists had to be won over. On the promise by the Government to give them four seats (later cut to three) in the Cab- inet, about two-thirds of the Monarchists voted for the Government and the Experts' Plan legislation was enacted...