Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, at President Roosevelt's direction, the War Department issued an order summarily relieving General Hagood of his command, ordering him to proceed from his headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. to his home at Orangeburg, S. C. to "await orders...
...consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear as little...
That was not precisely the climax to a spectacular career that Mr. Graustein anticipated. When he took command of International in 1924, he found that the company had chopped down most of the forests near its U. S. newsprint mills, that its machinery was largely obsolete. He proceeded to build and buy enormous new plants in Canada and Newfoundland, where the pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough...
Aside from the obvious aspects of a stock boom, inflation cheapens the currency and raises the cost of living. Rocketing prices will swiftly impoverish any organization depending on bonds and mortgages, yielding as they do a fixed interest. Income will no longer command the goods and services needed to continue operations...
...players who consider themselves underpaid, he refused to sign a 1936 contract, announced that he was "holding out" for more money. Said he : "The highest praise [umpires] receive is silence. When a man does good work under these circumstances - and I consider umpiring an art - I think he should command a good salary. ... If I can't get more, I am ready to try something else...