Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent an open break. The cruisers were withdrawn, and last week reason returned to Puppet Zog. He was persuaded by Benito Mussolini to accept a handsome loan with which to buy more munitions from Italy. Ten thousand Italian settlers will be admitted and Italian officers will continue to command the Albanian Army...
...Senate Finance Committee, who thought that additional taxation could be avoided next year; Utah's Senator King, who wanted the Government to buy more silver; NRAdministrator Johnson, who talked until midnight with the President about pulling NRA off the rocks. Tentative plan: to decentralize NRA's high command into three branches, executive, judicial, legislative...
Four of the Cleveland's ranking officers made off for the Manhattan investigation when they got ashore to report that lives had been lost because of Captain Robert E. Carey's incompetence and delay. They also petitioned the line to be removed from his command. Sailing back to San Francisco, the line's headquarters, Captain Carey observed: "I took it on the chin here in New York, but they'll get theirs in 'Frisco...
...hectic years?at least in the public's eye. Last year a move was made to block his accession to the first vice presidency. New York members in session last June passed a pointed resolution calling on the ABA to nominate for high executive positions men "able to command the confidence not only of bankers but of the public at large." Last week with the annual ABA convention but a month away, the Hecht opposition again broke into the open. Manhattan bankers, who are supposed to be opposition leaders, politely pooh-poohed such talk, but Banker Hecht felt obliged...
...allies. Its palisade was old and rotten and a heavy snowfall had made it even less of a protection. There were only 150 men in the town. The cold and sleepy sentries did not suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them for ransom. A woman two days out of childbed survived while others fell or were tomahawked by the way. Parson...