Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were so much raw meat, politicians in & out of Washington last week sank their teeth in the strange case of Major General Johnson Hagood who, for speaking flippantly of WPA, was fortnight ago summarily relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area and ordered to his home (TIME, March...
Discipline. Chief of Staff Craig, reading General Hagood's testimony in the Washington Star, wrote his subordinate to ask whether he had really said what was reported. Fourteen days later "by direction of the President" General Hagood was deprived of his Corps Area command-a terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should...
Right v. Wrong. Having received his orders to surrender his command, General Hagood last week wired the War Department, got permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called...
...Command of the Emperor." Not only last week but at all times the Imperial Palace of the Son of Heaven, standing in great wooded gardens encircled by high stone walls and a deep moat in Tokyo, is cut off from any newsy intercourse with the rest of the world. Into this sanctuary bolted the surviving members of the Japanese Cabinet and every subject of sufficient consequence to rate such proximity to the Son of Heaven...
...august name of the Son of Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR, I have ordered mobilization of a portion of my troops at important points, the purpose of which is to maintain order in the capital and to protect important objects...