Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heil Lewis! John L. Lewis [TIME, May 20] is a traitor to his country. ... If [he] is not a conspirator, if he is not restraining trade, if he isn't preventing the normal forces of competition which determine the demand and price which a laborer is able to command on an open market, then I wasted three years in the Army, 22 months overseas, helping restrain a despot who did that very thing. ... If we people will only let it be known how we feel, maybe the proper authorities will screw up their courage to the sticking point...
...with the 2nd Armored Division from start to finish, and recall a number of special orders posted describing the death sentence having been carried out for rape-murder! These orders came from Army command and I have no reason to doubt them. ... It seems to me the Pentagon lawyers can find no precedent in many things we took for granted...
...when he became Secretary of State (1944) he found he was just Franklin Roosevelt's standin. Eight months later, when Harry Truman replaced him with Jimmy Byrnes, Truman offered Stettinius what he termed "the most important job at my command"-i.e., permanent representation on the U.N. Security Council. But here again, Ed turned out to be the stand-in for his successor...
Opened at the Navy Yard at Philadelphia in 1934, the school moved to Harvard in 1941 and consolidated with the newly-organized Naval Reserve Supply Corps School which had moved here from Washington, D.C. Under Captain McIntosh's command, the school expanded from its first class of 35 officers, which graduated in July, 1941, to an enrollment of 2300 officers with branches at Wellesley and Babson Institute, and with a division for WAVE officers at Radcliffe...
After that outburst, he retired to a farm, spent four years pounding out proletarian novels and three plays. In 1910, his father's death sent him back to the Tribune, by family command, to settle down as an unwilling partner of austere Bertie McCormick...