Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Raymond Clapper once wrote: ". . . When government is fluid and dominated by the executive branch, [power] goes to the men who have the force to win it?the boldness, the resourcefulness and the sure judgment that command confidence. . . ." Like his boss, Harry Hopkins has boldness and resourcefulness in high degree. His admirers think his judgment is not only uncannily swift, but uncannily sure to fit what the President is thinking...
...flying officers), naval airmen grow even hotter under the collar. Among top-rankers on General Marshall's staff is the Air Forces' Major General Clayton L. Bissell, acting chief of G2. Another airman, Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, was Marshall's deputy before he was in command of a theater...
There was evidence that the top Japanese command was bent upon prolonging the war at any cost. Their dispositions on Luzon fitted such an intention: of an estimated nine divisions on the island, three were reported in the extreme south, three in the extreme north, and the balance in central reserve near Manila. This was a disposition designed to permit maximum resistance wherever General MacArthur might land-and obviously with no plan of evacuation in mind...
...martyred anti-Nazi father, calls Leona a Jewish tramp, bullies a Polish boy and blackmails a little girl into lying about it, tries to force his uncle's desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil...
...From an eyrie in its central tower the supreme headmaster will be able to tune in by television and telephone to any classroom. A private press will be necessary for him to issue his daily orders to his command...