Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Robinson (angrily)- ... I still assert with all the power and emphasis at my command that it is the duty of the Senate of the U. S. to go forward and do business and not make a pitiable and contemptible aspect of itself...
Originally Wilhelm II approved and is said to have financially supported Hitlerism. Last year he turned against it, did not seem to realize last week how ardently it is turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
...great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers...
...this is not so with foreign armies. They retreat whenever they are at a disadvantage in battle. . . . This is no way of fighting! Our lives, from the very beginning, are given up for His Majesty!" (Elsewhere Lieut-General Araki has said that a Japanese officer, in extraordinary circumstances, may command his men to "advance" in a rearward direction...
Sirs: Your justification of yourself for your taste less references to Mr. Roosevelt is goosefood. I would like to be recorded among your readers who "command otherwise."; JOHN W. FARQUHAR Easton, Pa. Sirs: Your explanation of the several references in TIME to Mr. Roosevelt's physical infirmities only makes a bad matter worse. There is no excuse for such writing. TIME, frankly, needs some lessons in good manners. It lacks the fundamental virtue of reverence. . DAVID P. GAINES Minister First Baptist Church Waterbury, Conn. Sirs: . . . Don't let TIME descend to the stilted, prudish, uninteresting style...