Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...
...Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial in his talk and warmly sensitive, looking much older than he did a few years ago, still carrying the impression of an unintentional austerity, of power, Cardinal Gasquet said to reporters that in order to fulfill the Pope's command: "I have given up everything to which I was attached in life." It was possible to imagine in the Cardinal a worthy successor to those proud Benedictines, monks of the Congregation of St. Maur-sur-Loire who helped to give the order its great tradition of scholarsh/p and learning: even...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-The love light glisters in a diplomat's eyes as he directs a slip of state (TIME...
...longstanding fight of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to elevate their profession from a status of menial service, for which the traveling public gives condescending "tips," was lost last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to command the Pullman Co. to prohibit tipping, interpreted the porters' plea as an effort to elevate something besides the status of their profession. "A consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Affaires of state are a diplomat's job and nobody's business (TIME...