Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosika Schwimmer, 54, beetle-browned Hungarian Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last...
Pending General Smith's return (in February) from foreign service, West Point is to be temporarily superintended by a cavalry man? Brigadier General Edwin B. Winans, whose latest command was the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss...
...chaplains and giving the chief of chaplains the rank of major general. Major general is the highest U. S. Army rank, except in war. Infantry & artillery officers resent the idea of the chief of 125 "sky pilots" being ranked equally with the few U. S. soldiers who rise to command 10,000 to 12,000 (a peacetime Army division...
...Their famed mechanical march and the tune that went with it has been played, imitated, repeated over most of the civilized world. The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the Tsar walked off the parade ground one afternoon, forgetting to give the command to halt. Because he was so cruel, nobody dared remind him. The soldiers went marching on to somewhere in Siberia before he remembered and ordered them to return. They arrived with beards. The Parade based on this legend is the most widely known of the Chauve Souris repertory...
John Paul cruised in southern seas, beat a mutinous sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...