Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years indicates, however, that it will take a considerable amount of courage to reduce any rate in the face of a strong sectional interest. Judging from recent polls of newspaper editors, as well as the practically unanimous verdict of the economists against the bill, a Presidential veto would command the enthusiastic support of the nation. But if the veto power is not exercised, the country will expect to see Mr. Hoover use the flexible provision in a statesmanlike and scientific...
...captain of the ship which took Columbus home offered to remove his riveted irons. "No, no!" cried the Discoverer, "I will wear these irons until Their Majesties, by whose command they were affixed, shall order them removed. And afterwards, my friend, I shall keep them as relics and memorials, tokens of how my services have been rewarded...
Evangeline Cory Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army in the U. S., passed some of the brightest days of her life last week. She led some 4,000 Army men and women assembled in Manhattan through the climax of celebrating two jubilees-the golden anniversary of the Army's 1880 "invasion" of the U. S. (TIME, March 24) and the silver anniversary of her taking command in the U. S. (1904). Herbert Hoover sent her greetings. Lou Henry Hoover sent an armful of roses. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York regretted that he could not attend the celebrations...
...concluded AE with all the scorn at his command, "a commercialization of Religion: using God to get jobs! ... It suggests an office with 'GOD' in large letters over the front door and devils busy inside...
...post of Poet Laureate no longer carries with it the obligation of composing odes at the royal command or even celebrating national occasions with a fitting verse. That interpretation of the office is today scarcely entertained outside the United States. When Wordsworth accepted the post he did so with the understanding that nothing of the sort would be required, and he held it on those terms. Tennyson to some extent revised those terms of his own will, and composed a good deal of court poetry...