Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAdoo, Nebraska's Norris, New York's Wagner, Missouri's Clark and Montana's Wheeler uprose to chime assent. No Senator raised his voice in objection. No Senator knows when he himself may be heading an investigation, needing all the power he can command...
...physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment, Dr. Carlson saic in Detroit last week, is the removal of fear and shame from the cripple's mind...
...Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...
With a chip on his shoulder Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler left the New York Philharmonic nine years ago determined never to return so long as Arturo Toscanini shared that orchestra's command. The German's first U. S. concerts were brilliant. After Toscanini arrived in 1926, he became heckled by adverse criticism, lost his confidence, his force. Last month Toscanini announced that he could no longer continue as the Philharmonic's general music director (TIME, Feb. 24). Last week the post was offered to Conductor Furtwängler. who promptly accepted...
...field to itself, refused to touch a full-page World-Telegram advertisement of the new edition. But $4,100 looked good to Publisher Edmond David Coblentz of Hearst's morning American. Fifteen hundred copies of the American containing the World-Telegram advertisement were on the streets when a command came straight from Publisher Hearst to stop the presses, strike it out. Meantime the Journal's panicky editors were ordered on about twelve hours' notice to add a new eight-page section to their Saturday edition, solved the problem by concocting an amusement section with cuts blown...