Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explosive Bob. After hours of boiling argument, the showdown came. Vandenberg prevailed; the amendment was defeated by a vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
Between wars, Cates served variously as a White House aide to Woodrow Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily...
Tammany Plus. The small, smart, efficient high command of Poland's Communists, which one observer told me was "Tammany Hall with Tommy guns," plans to fight its battles one at a time, though occasionally these overlap. The projected seven-point program of absorption: 1) the wartime London government -in -exile; 2) the underground; 3) the schools; 4) the middle class; 5) the Socialists (now Communism's ally in the government bloc); 6) the peasants; 7) the church...
...audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
With the growth in size and intricacy of the endowment fund, the President, who originally was in personal command of most of its involvements, has gradually been relieved of many of his financial duties. The most recent addition to the University's pecuniary crew, which includes the Treasurer and administrative vice-President, is a special adviser to the President. As the special adviser, Richmond Keith Kane '22 sees his job as the discovery of "who is hitting whom for what." In order to gain this knowledge, he must sit midway between the departments, which initiate projects requiring more money...