Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war he ran the Atlantic division of the biggest airline of all-the Air Transport Command. For the last 16 months he has been the U.S. representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. He impressed Air Secretary Stu Symington and Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman by his negotiating of international air routes. They recommended him to Harry Truman...
This line of thought had led Washington to some tangible decisions. Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, one of the top U.S. strategists, last week was named to command the Navy's Mediterranean force, which began training exercises off southwestern Greece. The State Department seriously considered shifting Walter Bedell Smith from his job as Ambassador to Moscow to take overall charge of U.S. political, economic and military interests in the eastern Mediterranean area. The Navy announced that it was sending four modern submarines to Turkey. A thousand Marines sailed for the Mediterranean aboard the Navy's Montague and Bexar, both...
...bishop referred to a famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence in the 18203. After her husband was captured and executed by the Turks, Lascarina Bouboulina replaced him as a sea raider, took command of his ship and effectively harried Turkish shipping in the Aegean...
This voice identified itself last week as Michael Foot, 34, a wiry, wily Labor M.P. whose last editorial command was acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He has been a Tribune director since 1945. An ice-cold logician and red-hot debater, Foot is one of a minority of parliamentary Laborites who know what they mean when they call themselves Socialists...
...support of two-thirds of the varsity grid squad, whose opinion is presumably worth a good deal. Although Powell did not reveal their names, he added that they had authorized him to inform Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 that they were in favor of placing Boston in command of the 1948 team...