Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Education subsidiary to the executive can foist compulsory military training on the colleges of the country is difficult to see. Without legislative action, college men cannot be required to match to the command of a top sergeant. Indeed since his courageous defence of the non-militaristic City College students, Dr. Otis seems to be obsessed with what the learned Viennese might call a military complex...
...conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They had maintained that "forfeiture of all pay" established a dangerous precedent. For though...
...Significance. Observers noted that the present alignment of Centre parties behind Dr. Luther can command only 171 votes in the Reichstag out of a total of 493. Dr. Luther thus heads a "Little Coalition," with barely enough votes to outnumber the Left (Socialists, 131; Communists, 45) or the Right (German National People's Party, 103). In addition, some 43 votes appertaining to the numerous minor parties, and mostly leaning toward the Right, further serve to divide the Reichstag roughly into three loose factions of almost eq,ual power: "the Lefts," "Luther's Little Centre Coalition," and "the Rights...
...enough of a grownup, well-bred man to carry through a gentleman's daily personal routine without a word of advice or suggestion or command from anybody...
...heads of States should therefore not refuse to testify publicly their reverence for and obedience to the Kingdom of Christ if they wish their power to remain unimpaired, and their countries to prosper and progress. If princes and legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, were convinced that they command not in their own right but by the mandate of the Divine King it is easy to understand what sacred use they would make of their authority...