Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lioutenant-Commander Paul R. Glutting, U. S. N., assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, left today for San Diego, California, where he is to take command of the U.S.S. Nautilus, the largest submarine in the United States Navy, and the second largest submarine in the world. A French submersible exceeds it by a little...
Turks, who threw away fez and veil at President Mustafa Kemal's command, set about achieving last week that much more difficult Western reform, a balanced budget...
Squires was in his rooms?protected by the three clergymen whose parade, to their infinite distress, had become a riot. As the mob raged nearer & nearer to the Premier's rooms Father John Pippy took command, arranged a back-door escape for the Premier after whispering among mobsmen in that quarter. Out front, Newfoundlanders were dancing on the Government's piano, dancing it to smithereens and pocketing piano keys "as souvenirs." For an escape the instant seemed propitious to Father Pippy and to potent John Power, a burly fisherman who had agreed to help...
...concerts have been ragged because of hurried rehearsals. But San Francisco's music-wise feel that he will do well with his brief Manhattan engagement. New audiences inspire him. He will have an orchestra all trained for him, able to respond instantly to his quick, intuitive command. Conductor Dobrowen hates plodding but his intuitions are usually correct. He is a good fisherman, knows when to strike. Other musicians may have landed bigger muskellunge than he, but few men land the Philharmonic-Symphony...
...hind legs and fight for what we believe to be right with all the energy and intelligence we can command. Bernarr MacFadden in The New York Evening Graphic...