Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause & Cure. During the week the President had given the nation an official record of how war had come to an insecure U.S., and an unequivocal statement that he favored putting all the armed forces under a unified command...
G.I.s arguing among themselves were as divided as the high-command councils. Some thought there should be an immediate ban, which might be lifted "when we see how we get along with the Japanese." (It had been that way in Germany, and the Allies had wound up looking ridiculous.) Whatever it decided, the command would be criticized. Politics, military discipline and biology were hard to balance in one equation...
...Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular-minded...
...crack A.P.man went no Cooper command. Ed ("Scoop") Kennedy, European expert for 10 years until his SHAEF trouble, is still on "vacation...
...Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...