Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...64th Article of The Articles of War which "shall at all times and in all places govern the Armies of the United States" forbids willful disobedience to a lawful command of a superior officer...
Fleet Admiral King used his final report on his four-year stewardship* to labor his contention that unity of command in Washington would have done nothing to shorten...
...Queen, who likes to consider herself a Cockney by choice if not by birth, is happiest in London. Only on the express command of George VI did she consent to sit out the war in Gloucestershire. Now she is back in blitzed but unbroken Maryborough House, living in six of its 200 rooms with a handful of loyal retainers on her civil grant of ?70,000 ($280,000) a year. She hardly ever entertains any more. When she does, her meals are patriotically, chillingly austere...
...world as it is today, there are two very great powers [i.e., the U.S. and Russia], and we lie exactly between them . . . the bridgehead of the West in Europe. . . . Our vital interests command us ... to follow a policy of friendship, to the East and to the West, with our eyes open and our hands free...
Thomas E. Dewey reported a parlous situation in the governor's mansion in Albany. The bathroom in the McKinley guest suite needed a new toilet seat, but for three months, said Dewey, "the entire majesty of New York State and all the resources at its command" proved unable to find one. Shocked sympathizers promptly dispatched replacements-one by air from Tacoma, Wash...