Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer's wife how to hold-diapers up on the babies and how to cut the little fellow's pants so that he could look after himself without the aid of his mother, and that has spread and spread until the Secretary of Agriculture has at his command an army bigger than Washington ever had. He has more power than Caesar ever had. He has more power than Napoleon ever had; all without the authority of the Constitution of the United States...
...best informed U. S. opinion on the subject was summed up last week by able Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent of the New York Times: "In the War and Navy Departments there is a division of opinion among our high command as to the imminence of a military crisis between Japan and Soviet Russia. But . . . their disagreement is only as to time: most of them expect...
...present confusion in the minds of the Nazi viceroys as to which of the temperamental Hitler hierarchy to take orders from was settled at the same time. Neither club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels, bull-necked General Göring nor strange Captain Roehm will command them, now sole rulers of the individual provinces. Their orders will be laid down by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...
...voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad. So fixed that he can "wipe out" the broker husband at will, the peasant-tycoon takes command of the situation and the daughter has a brilliant Metropolitan debut...
...intricate network of which he takes command was organized in 1870 as a function of the Signal Corps, transferred to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Its first annual appropriation was $15,000. For the current fiscal year it got $3,731,235, of which about $450,000 will go for telegraph bills, most of the rest to pay some 1,000 employes. At more than 200 stations in the U. S., Canada, Alaska, the West Indies, notations are made twice daily of pressure, precipitation, wind, temperature. The results are wired in code to Washington, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco...