Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleek, dark hair of General Theodore Pangalos, the "Mussolini of Greece," turned white when he was deposed as Dictator and jailed (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week, the iron barred door of General Pangalos' cell opened by command of his great and wily friend, M. Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just maneuvered himself into the Prime Ministry (TIME, June...
...Approximate English rendering of his peculiar French status as the Vice-Admiral actually in command of French warboats...
Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
...Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after "Big Tim's" doorbell had rung...
Though the recent election gave his party a huge plurality in the Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...