Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain's war, with victory now teetering on the side of the Leftists, now tilting back to the Rightists, could thank the Satevepost last week for a professional military analysis of the war by Major Thomas R. Phillips, faculty member of the top-rank U. S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...evening last week a show was staged in the White House. In the East Room, from 7 to 8 p. m., President & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S., President & Mrs. David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and a few other guests watched a "command performance" of Pins & Needles, the I. L. G. W. U. show that has become a Broadway hit (TIME...
...contrast with the tendencies of the National Socialist Party, the German army has exerted on the whole "a peace-preserving influence," Marx explained the apparent paradox by the fact that professional soldiers temper the prospects of glory with strategic calculations. "Strategic calculus," he stated, "made the German Army command pointedly reluctant toward Fascism's and National Socialism's 'little war', in Spain. This issue led to the inner conflict that culminated in the mass resignations misnamed the 'army purge...
Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...Soup Co., the advertising agency of F. Wallis Armstrong Co. never had to worry about losing that fat account, though it did lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family...