Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arithmetic is arithmetic. Twenty percent of $2,000 is $400. One broadcast a week for a year, at that miserably low figure, is $20,000 per year, and that is only from one radio engagement. If he is really a top-notch band leader, and he must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser will probably not be overlooked...
...lieutenant-colonel, mild War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi resigned to make way for less mild General Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Since a Japanese officer's patriotism is measured by his appetite for Chinese territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them a pamphlet and his views on how much of China Japan should swallow...
Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
Promoted from major to lieutenant-colonel in August, Arthur R. Harris will take command of Harvard's R.O.T.C. unit on Tuesday, replacing Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, who is going to Washington as chief of the Historical Section of the War College...
...their command Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson have a supply of serum taken from the blood of Chicagoans recently recovered from scarlet fever. This serum ordinarily is used in the treatment of severe attacks of scarlet fever. Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson injected some into patients dying of Streptococcus haemolyticus infection. Only one out of five thus treated died. If scarlet fever serum is not available, the Chicago doctors recommend transfusion of whole blood from a suitable donor who has recently recovered from scarlet fever...