Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...This Court finds Colonel Mitchell guilty of violating the 96th Article of War and harshly penalizes him by retaining him in the Army but suspends hm from work, command and duty with forfeiture of all pay for five years. The officers of this Court did not dismiss Mitchell from the Army, but retained him so that he could not pose as a martyr nor indulge in further criticism...
...Herr President first made a courteous gesture toward the Centrists by requesting their leader, Herr Fehrenbach, to attempt to form a cabinet. No one expected that Herr Fehrenbach would be successful. The votes at his party's command are too few to form the nucleus of a coalition. A day or two later he announced that for him the task was an impossibility...
...incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted...
After such a performance it was interesting to see if she could just as readily assume command of her stage, as merely live on it. "Enter Madame" demanded that she should. Still one wondered if she could change from a homely, stupid peasant woman to a glittering star of the opera. It seemed practically impossible that she could do the thing gracefully...