Word: commander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night Admiral Newton A. McCully, in command of the Black Fleet, sprang the first surprise. Some 1,000 or 1,500 marines in 50-foot motor boats carried by the Black Fleet traveled 17 miles from Porto Bello under cover of a smoke screen. Despite a very rough sea they effected a landing between 4 and 5am. A detachment of 400 attacked Fort Randolph and captured it from its defenders, who numbered 1 than half as many. Another detachment took the Coco Solo aviation field (defended by 70 mechanics) and submarine base, "destroying" submarine supplies and capturing all aeroplanes...
...Sturzo, who resigned the leadership of the Partito Popolare (Catholic Party) last July (TIME, July 23), was expected to resume his command of the Party. Behind the scenes he still wields considerable power. Besides being a politician and a priest, Don Sturzo is a passionate lover of music. He is to be seen any Sunday listening to the classical concerts at the Augusteum in Rome...
Judging from the small number of votes cast in three days of balloting, the Bok Prize Peace Plan does not command the same enthusiastic attention given recently to the Prohibition referendum. Whereas nearly three thousand men voted on the latter question in one day, there have been so far only 750 interested enough to indicate their opinions of the prize-winning document. The overwhelming approval of the plan is somewhat surprising, considering the usual diversity of ideas noticeable in the University on any subject...
...idea has not yet trampled, as Victor Bugo says ideas finally do, on the bended necks of rulers. The world can still be plunged into war at the command of men who will run their own and others risks from their desk-chairs. Until that becomes impossible each nation must maintain its defense. Nor will it do any good for men to pledge themselves to anything. The hardest drinkers in a community are always those who, as Sunday School children, swore never to touch a drop of liquor; and it's the confirmed bachelors who fall for the chores girls...
...found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary. An absolute standard is the only one which can prove fair and consistent with itself. The only absolute standard at the command of any university is that of scholarship...