Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was a lie which Goldsmith never forgave. His successful play became a triumph when, ten nights later, there was a command performance for the King...
...Pacific at the present time, in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House after supper tomorrow night. After his talk he will answer any questions that members of the House may care to ask. Sims was attached to the Asiatic fleet for many years, and he had command of the American naval forces operating in European waters during the World War. As a result of this command, he was awarded an LL.D. degree by both Harvard and Yale...
...Federation of Labor organizer in Detroit, to the House Labor Committee last week, or the nation's automobile workers will walk out. The Committee was not impressed. As the results of employes' elections held by the Automobile Labor Board showed, the A. F. of L.. can command only a minor fraction of automobile workers (TIME, Feb. 25). Realistic Laborites know that at most they can call out some makers of parts, perhaps thus cripple production lines...
...cooking for fellow Groupers in their seven-room flat. A Jew like half of the Group's personnel, he likes music, plays the harmonica, is unmarried. With the proceeds of his recent successes he bought an electric phonograph. Since any man who has two hits on Broadway can command his own price in Hollywood, Broadway observers wondered how long Playwright Odets would be satisfied with his electric phonograph...
...this sour note was concluded last week the experiments by the Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau...