Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of a ruler "who, below, shall be august; and who shall come to direct Italy upon the right path". The poet had formed the vision of an imperial figure who should restore the Holy Roman Empire, and bring all the factions of a disunited Italy under his sole command. This man was to come forth soon, and he had even been designated as Henry VII--then nominally the emperor. But Henry died an ignoble death, having accomplished less than nothing, and Dante was forced to postpone the date of the hoped-for unification, until at last he died with...
...Secretary Denby could do the Navy a high and lasting service ... by ordering that all places of high command be filled exclusively by War College graduates. It would make his name stand out like a lighthouse...
...particular occasion which brought him the D. S. O., he fought with two platoons through a dense thicket against an unlocated enemy who resisted with a constant artillery and machine gun fire. When two officers on his left were shot down, he took entire command, four times rallying his men to the attack. His small group silenced seven machine guns and captured several prisoners. He finally reached his objective, Hill 370, in spite of the that his company was decimated, and definitely located the enemy, which was the main purpose of the reconnaissance...
Jovan Plamenatz, who recently tried to gain admittance into the United States on a passport issued by himself, was, it is authoritatively reported, ejected from Italy by command of the Mussolini Government, following repeated requests for his expulsion by the Yugo-Slavian Government...
Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen...