Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within four days, leadership in the Bonus army changed three times. For the third time since he set out from Portland, Ore. two months ago as an unemployed cannery superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued...
Because he wound up a harangue to troops last week with the cry "Viva Espana!" instead of "Viva la Republica!" the Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army, General Don Manuel Goded, was ousted from his command by Premier Azana...
Four years later to the day after his first arrival Dr. Eckener landed again at Lakehurst, this time in command of the LZ-127 (Graf Zeppelin). His ship moored fast, Dr. Eckener left it to the horde of sightseers, sauntered across the floor of the dock, beamed up at the LZ-126, long since renamed. Eyes brimming, he muttered: "Das ist mein schatz" ("That's my baby...
This week Commander Rosendahl was to deliver command of the Akron to Commander Alger Herman Dresel, passenger on the transcontinental flight, then return by train to California to board the battle cruiser West Virginia for sea duty...
...three remaining days to perfecting the raising and lowering of the stroke on which so much of the smoothness, feel, and spirit of a crew depend. An eight may row faultlessly at an even stroke, yet if it cannot raise and lower the beat at the cox's command without losing the proportion and rythm, it will not be able to meet the sprints of its opponents. From now on it will be the minor details which the coaches will watch out for, and especially the little errors, which when added together, all tend to reduce the efficiency...