Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invaders" were non-existent except for a handful of officers to outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved...
Since last winter Curtiss Flying Service, as sales agents for Curtiss, Curtiss-Robertson, Cessna, Ireland, Command-aire and Sikorsky planes, has been advertising with confident emphasis...
...eleventh day of debate, at 1:20 A.M., with M. Briand in command, with M. Poin-caré in bed, and with the thermometer at 90° the government put through their law with a vote of 300 ouis to 292 nons. Thus by the narrow squeak of 8 votes-the smallest majority thus far received by the present government-M. Domergue was authorized to pledge that France will pay the U. S. a total of $6,847,-674,104.17 (of which $2,822,674,104.17 is interest) over 62 years. The French Senate must confirm the Chamber...
...Manhattan dailies?Times, Herald Tribune, World, Sun?with many a news-sending device at their command, last week had not yet signified intent to subscribe nor had the big news services, Associated Press, United Press...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...