Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went back to the Marines, was sent to California. There he denounced and court martialed his predecessor in command of the post on charges of drunkenness after entertaining General Butler in his home...
...with all the seriousness I can command," cried Philip Snowden, "that the national position is so grave that drastic and disagreeable measures will have to be taken. . . . The greatest sacrifices will have to be borne by those best able to bear them...
...reveal blandly that the Duke of Abercorn has turned Canada down, preferring to remain Governor of Northern Ireland-"that," sputtered the Liberal London Star last week, "is one of those things which are 'not done.' We cannot recall an indiscretion of parallel magnitude in connection with a command from royalty. ... In Court circles . . . this gross discourtesy . . . to the Crown . . . has not passed unnoticed...
...local emergency, such as the arrival of a carload of perishable foodstuffs with no one about to unload them, an agent will simply command all men within the sound of his voice to begin unloading, and will probably also command the station master to pay them for their trouble...
...Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds the office from which bowlegged Max was promoted: "Chief of the General Staff...