Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ward Flood Products. In Baltimore, at the command of U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, who termed his action the "first instance in which the Department of Justice has sought to administer prophylactic treatment under the anti-trust laws," the Department filed suit in the District Court against the new two-billion-dollar Ward Food Products Corp. (TIME, Feb. 8), charging that corporation with violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and of the Clayton Act. Defendants named are: Ward Food Products Corp., Ward Baking Co., General Baking Corp., Continental Baking Corp., United Bakeries Corp., William B. Ward, Howard...
...Then there had better be no more parades," blurts the old soldier. But there are more parades, of that kind. Tietjens' integrity sees him through and furthers a movement (for the "single command") that is to turn the War's tide. Tietjens comes out of a moral Gehenna victorious...
...Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down as an inspired attempt to cage within the worldly walls of the theatre an intangible and hopelessly unanswerable abstraction...
...must delight many authors outraged by a cacophonous conjunction of insult bearing words. Perhaps it will take the sting from an evil-flavored review to know that the critic did not believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
They are thus at a disadvantage in political lobbying as well as in economic initiative. Nevertheless, their political representatives are their only possible tools. Through such genius as they can command in these politicians, the farmers demand a way to economic sufficiency, to profits...