Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without declaring martial law (he did not have to because Washington is Federal territory). President Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to call out the Army from Fort Myer in nearby Virginia. Secretary Hurley passed the command along to handsome, well-tailored General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, in the following crisp dispatch...
...busy to dally in politics in the past, Mr. Hungerford gives the impression of being a man who will stick to the job on hand and command the respect of his employes, although he is far less dashing a character than Sir Henry. The Government last week pledged itself to non interference. Whether or not Mr. Hungerford can increase CNR's traffic, decrease its tremendous deficits, will probably be the final answer to the debatable question : Can any government run a railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that...
...distinguished service in your unequalled reporting of the recent Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 11). The delicate touches, wherein, without too great offending, you caricature the grotesque hyperbole of the keynote and nominating speeches, compensate for the suffering endured. Some day, perhaps, through the leadership of TIME, the high command of both parties will awake to the public's opinion of such exaggeration as was spread over six days and nights at the Chicago Stadium and will order a greatly condensed flow of partially sane oratory from nominators and seconders to the relief of listeners absent and present...
Spectators and newsmen shrank back in fear of what might happen if these angry thousands turned violent. The plaza remained uncleared. Waters was brought out and exhibited to his followers. He surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
...with all other S. P. men getting $10,000 or more. Completely shelved by the changes wall be Henry Wheeler De Forest, board chairman. His position will be abolished although he remains a director and on the executive committee. Net result of the changes, putting Hale Holden in supreme command, follows the trend of all roads toward simplification of control...