Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thesis- One April afternoon in 1917 George W. Norris of Nebraska stood before the U. S. Senate and cried out: "We are going into war upon the command of gold. ... I would like to say to this war god, 'You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.' ... I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign upon the American flag." Senator Norris' words were not history. They were the judgment of a man upon contemporary events...
...used as the instrument to enforce a regulation of matters of state concern with respect to which the Congress has no authority to interfere, may it, as in the present case, be employed to raise the money necessary to purchase a compliance which the Congress is powerless to command? The Government asserts that whatever might be said against the validity of the plan, if compulsory, it is constitutionally sound because the end is accomplished by voluntary cooperation. . . . "The coercive purpose and intent of the statute is not obscured by the fact that it has not been perfectly successful...
After gloomily pronouncing Manhattan an unmusical city, big, brooding Otto Klemperer boarded a train for Los Angeles last week to take command of a Philharmonic Orchestra where audiences roundly hail him as a hero. During a 13-week session the towering German had led the New York Philharmonic through many a scholarly performance. In his wake a Carnegie Hall concert was called for 8:45 p. m. At 8:44 p. m. there came sauntering through the stage entrance a short, top-heavy man with piercing brown eyes, a militant goatee, a bland, self-assured manner. It was Sir Thomas...
...from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic of 1893 he had been financial editor of the old New York Evening Post for two years. Under his command the Post became a famed training school for financial journalists and its business section a leader of the lay press. To Editor Noyes the Rich Man's Panic" of 1903, the Panic of 1907, the closing of the Stock Exchange in 1914, the post-War collapse, are as fresh...
...measure. In accordance with this policy, as soon as it became apparent to the executive officials of the company that there were irregularities in the collection of Colorado State liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands all of the facts at its command. He advised the Company to communicate with the State Attorney's Office, and as a result of this step State operators and McKesson officials arranged for a "trap" on McKesson property, as a result of which a "go-between," alleged to be working in the personal interest...