Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtained this photo from a British pilot (name forgotten) in November 1918 when stationed at the Toul airdrome as a flight commander of the U. S. Pursuit Squadron No. 141 (equipped with type XIII Spads) under command of Princeton's famed "Hobey" Baker...
Defending the U. S. in command of the Battle Force was Admiral Luke McNamee aboard his flagship California. His "Blue" fleet consisted of the battleships New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado and West Virginia, nine 7,500-ton cruisers, 40 destroyers, 15 submarines, the aircraft carrier Langley and miscellaneous tender and supply ships. Lighter and swifter, the Black fleet was to try to cut through this heavy-hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly...
...Even if the sergeant-at-terms did write the article in question as a defence of the Congress, his statement that "there are not many Senators or Representatives who sell their votes for money . . ." wins undue respect from the office appended to the by line. If the Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...bought 500,000 shares of New York Central-the full 10% of shares outstanding which it could buy without permission from the New York Public Service Commission-and at the report that L. F. Loree's friends had acquired another 500,000 shares. With a 20% command, the 74-year-old fighter was in a fair way to dominate one of the biggest rail systems in the land...
Chicago believes there are good things in store for its big home-town enterprise. Chicago knows Sewell Lee Avery, quiet, fine-faced, Morgan-picked president & chairman of Montgomery Ward, who is reported to have worked wonders his first full year in command...