Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is hardly an administrative official of importance in the Federal Government who is not serving to the sacrifice of the satisfactions and remunerations he could command from private life. The only thing they can hope for is the enhancement of their reputations with their countrymen. The one hope of high service and integrity and ability is that such men should be willing to undertake it, and when men of a lifetime of distinction and probity do undertake it, they should not be subjected to infamous transactions of this character...
...Expense will be eliminated, time will be saved, and error will be reduced. Intersectional games have made scouting an expensive luxury. When the contract of a coach depends upon good results he will take no chances. He will get men who can provide able reports on opponents. Fine men command fine salaries...
...goods. As means of transportation in the country are few, the company is building roads between its various posts. The industry in general is of greatest economic value as it provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater than they could otherwise command. The employees live in company huts, and plans are being made for the construction of model, sanitary towns where the natives for the first time will have hospitals, clean water supply, and sanitary means of sewage disposal. Native customs are being studied with a view to organizing practical trade schools...
...training of the first class consists of instruction in signal communications, command, sword and voice drill, and the innumerable duties of officers in field and garrison. This work includes training the new fourth class and extended cavalry and artillery hikes...
...manager a woman, Bertha M. Stryker, energetic worker in the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. (Cleveland's capable orchestra manager is Adella Prentiss Hughes.) Karl Krueger, young Viennese conductor who took over the Seattle Orchestra at the time of its reorganization in 1926, again has sole command...