Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority of one vote in the Dail. Winning both by-elections last week not only gave him a majority of two, not count- ing the speaker's casting vote, but also showed which way the wind was blowing. At best the Government could not command a working majority...
...RESOLVED by the House of Representatives, That the President of the United States be requested to appoint the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin an admiral in the Navy and to place him in command of the battleship West Virginia, the pride of the Navy, with orders to anchor at New York Harbor...
...instructed upon the appearance of the Pope on the water, in the air, under the sea or in fancy within twelve miles of the Statute of Liberty to fire unceasingly for a period of twelve hours with 16-inch shells loaded with the most deadly verbosity at the command of the new admiral...
...noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message. Next day Chinese Boxers, uprising, slew him foully...
...announced that it would first be tried out on . U. S. merchant ships now plying between Manhattan and San Francisco. The idea, in essence, is to create on each merchant ship a body of officers trained as a unit in naval technique and capable of being instantly transferred to command a fighting ship...