Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next move was to reshuffle the cabinet. Little Chancellor Dollfuss traded Ministers around the better to fight Naziism, the better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...
...army takes pity on your ignorant soldiers, and delivers this solemn command: Cease opposing the Japanese and Manchukuans. Break away from Marshal Chiang Kaishek. . . . Should you not separate yourselves from your army at an early date and become a new people, our great Japanese-Manchukuan allied army will advance...
...plus $300,000,000 for state jobless relief. In 15 months he has helped to pass out $2.260,021,958 to banks, railroads, insurance companies, building & loan associations, farmers and the like. Of this sum $464,753.681 had been repaid up to April 22. As Chairman Jones took command, the four-man R. F. C.'s lending power was still about $1,704,000,000. Of late the R. F. C. has suffered due to lack of aggressive leadership and clear-cut purpose within the Board. Its importance as a relief agency has dwindled. Its public works program...
...advantage; in novels, however, it is still a defect. Conrad Aiken's prose-people are shadowy, unsubstantial; but in the hero of Great Circle he has concentrated such emotion that the other characters seem temporarily real enough. Written with more ability than most U. S. prosemen can command, with more care than most would be bothered to employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather...
...editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss's daughter-was being...