Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the Colonel addressed a 100-man luncheon given for him by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler. With the mien of one accustomed to command, and the hypnotic oversimplification of a Tribune editorial, he explained the Greek crisis, e.g., Roosevelt allowed events to get out of control and now look at them. Then, as de facto boss of the Illinois G.O.P., he viewed party chances for 1948. "I don't think they're very good," he said. "The New York banks will control the Republicans again and run some stooge against Truman. ... It looks...
...council meeting broke up early so that the ministers could attend a command performance of the ballet Romeo and Juliet...
...intervening on Feb. 1 to prevent a scheduled Tokyo general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government...
Died. Major General Frank Parker, 74, who rose from a regimental command to lead the famed First Division in its final War I campaign; peacetime commanding general of the Sixth Corps Area and the Philippine Department; in Chicago...
...master was in command at Briggs Cage yesterday as next fall's would-be gridiron stars rounded out a week of spring practice. Richard Cresson Harlow, just returned from a medical checkup and a short rest at his Maryland home, made the difference in what turned out to be a session of fierce 'supervised contact...