Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiger Returns. But to the Japanese the new commander of their troops in the Philippines was the surest indication of the Philippines' importance in the plans of Tokyo's High Command. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's arrival in Manila was announced with a flurry by Tokyo Radio. Fat-faced. Nazi-loving Yamashita. brutal, able conqueror of Malaya and Singapore. Bataan and Corregidor, was quoted as saying: "The only words I spoke to the British commander during the negotiations for the surrender of Singapore were: 'All I want to hear from...
...dreary process began all over again at Liuchow, 100 miles to the southwest. Colonel Richard Wise, commanding the Third Sector, China Air Service Command, worked around the clock to get out all the men, equipment and supplies which he had worked the year around to get in-up to 3,000 planeloads flown over the costly Hump route; a million gallons of aviation fuel, torturously accumulated and stored, now impossible to save. With the Japs only 30 miles away, a U.S.O. troupe dropped in and gave a show.* Said Sergeant William Gould: "This is the most cheerful crisis...
...jailed numerous policemen who had been suspected of brutality and killings during the Batista regime. At the same time. Grau warned the troublemakers to settle their differences in court. Eduardo Chibas, Government leader in the Senate, who has a flair for the dramatic, announced: "The President has taken personal command of the maintenance of order in Cuba...
...policemen were shot to death last week in midtown Havana. This time Grau really did take command, canceled all gun licenses, ordered all civilians disarmed. Cuba breathed more easily...
Flying the new CinCLant's flag was a brand-new four-star Admiral: barrel-chested Jonas Howard Ingram, Medal-of-Honorman and onetime Navy fullback, who had served a long tour fighting submarines and running diplomatic errands among the Latin Americas as Commander of the Fourth (South Atlantic) Fleet. He had done so well at both jobs that no Navyman begrudged hurricane-voiced, gregarious Jonas Ingram his new star and his job in the Navy's most important sea command outside of the Pacific...