Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senores Representantes," he cried dramatically, "upon resigning irrevocably the supreme command of the republic, I state that I served my country with all the energies of my heart and all the lights of my brain...
...University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the English colonization movement." On May 8, 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched from England in three vessels 150 colonists, including 25 women and children, under the command of Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail...
Once the tent started to collapse. Pointing at the sagging canvas she cried: "I command you in the name of the Lord to stay up until the meeting is over." The top caught on a nail, stayed up. There are numerous stories of miraculous cures she has effected...
...friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff who has publicly boasted that he alone was responsible for the death of General Protogeroff, that not a Bulgarian official dared do a thing about...
From Poland last week came news of another terrorist organization, replica of the Imro, known as the Umo or Ukrainian Military Organization under the command of a Col. Konovalec. In the past few years the Umo has attempted to murder Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski; Poland's second President, Jan Wojciechowski; the Minister of Commerce and Industry Eugene Kwiatkowski; has succeeded in murdering a State official, one Sobinski. Last week the Umo added to its reputation by burning a Franciscan convent and 60 farms...