Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First work of the new House of Commons last week was to obey a Royal command to elect their Speaker. George V's command was given by proxy in the neighboring House of Lords. Until the Speaker is elected, the Commons cannot sit as the House (with the Mace on the table) but only in committee (with the Mace under the table). In symbolic dumb show Clerk of the House Sir Horace Christian Dawkins began the time-honored mummery by taking his stand (not seat) in front of the empty Speaker's chair. The Clerk asked nomination of a Speaker...
...tickets had been sold last night, with every indication that the game will be a complete sellout. Still smarting under the sting of last year's humiliating 27 to 0 defeat. Harvard is forgetting Yale for the moment and concentrating on the Crusaders with all the power it can command. Reports from Worcester have it that Phil O'Conncil and his hard-driving eleven are equally determined to duplicate last year's flasco...
...first two days were devoted to sabre practice and the various evolutions of the troopers. As not even a dozen of the company knew how to ride with case or saddle a horse properly, many amusing scenes resulted. When the command "Boots and saddles" was given for the first time, it was difficult to tell whether the boys or the horses were the more scared...
...conflicting. How distasteful this activity has seemed to the president himself is now clearly indicated by the fact that it has moved him to depart from his long-standing custom of silence regarding such matters, and to authorize the issue of an official denial. His attitude, we trust, will command the respect to which it is entitled...
...Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander he has complete command. No singer may be delinquent about rehearsals. Because of tardiness last year one man was forbidden to sing in any of the Manhattan concerts...