Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political "will" is printed as The Suppressed Testament of Lenin and sold for 10? by Pioneer Publishers of New York City, a branch of the U. S. Trotsky organization. Written in December 1922 and January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary...
Sherston's Progress begins with his treatment in a mental hospital, covers his readmittance to active service when his desire to make a martyr of himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when...
...Maine. Last week Nominee Landon had planned to advance his cause by receiving Young Republicans at a grand progressive jubilee in Topeka. Then the GOP high command met in Chicago, got Governor Land on the telephone, held long and earnest conversation. That night the Republican nominee abruptly canceled his Topeka jubilee, startled the nation with his most belligerent statement to date. "I am going to Maine," said he, "to help rededicate that State to the good government for which it has always stood and to participate in the first fighting repudiation at the polls of the kind of government this...
Dashing in his blue overalls to the southern front of Madrid's defenders near Talavera de la Reina, the new Premier conferred with the Red officer to whom for the first time had been entrusted supreme command of the capital's forces, cigar-chewing General Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government...
...last week for the story that the populace had crucified five monks and burned nuns alive. In fact last week largely was devoted to debunking Irun's more fantastic Red & White atrocity yarns. Meanwhile in nearby San Sebastian, next objective of a White Army under direct command of General Emilio Mola, there actually appeared a number of Spaniards who had not gone hog wild-Basques...