Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 100 whom it had ordered to be ready to appear. The purpose of calling these witnesses was to contradict the testimony of the defense witnesses. Congressman Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, attacked their testimony in crossexamination. He questioned one witness, trying to show lack of unity of command in the war games at Hawaii last summer. The witness, Major J. J. Bain, drew a distinction between "unity of command" and "unity of direction," and Mr. Reid insisted on an explanation of the difference. In the midst of the examination Mr. Reid whirled around toward Brigadier General Edward L. King...
...Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority without Blum...
...split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...
...Russian of Nikolai Evreinov specifically for their purpose. What they will make out of it remains to be seen. But the conditions that will permit a play to be chosen purely apart from commercial considerations, and the conviction that it is the superior order of creative art which should command the attention of the Dramatic Club, surely do not show that the drama in Harvard is in quite so lamentable a state of disrepute as it might conceivably...
...recently arrived at Tetuan, was entertained by General Miguel Primo de Rivera at a banquet given in his honor. Present were the Grand Vizier and the chief resident Spanish officers and officials. General de Rivera commented upon the fact that he had just turned over the Spanish High Command in Morocco to General Sanjurjo; later he issued a printed address to the troops in which he described their new leader as "my companion in arms for 33 years," and extolled his virtues...