Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phantom government groping for a shadow majority in the darkness." Thus Le Temps last week characterized the struggles of Painlevé and his new Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 9): 1) to disentangle the numberless conflicting "live issues" perplexing the minds of French politicians; 2) to formulate a program that would command a working majority in the Chamber...
Torrential rains in the French sectors of Riffland brought all operations to such a complete standstill last week that Marshal Pétain entrusted the High Command of the French forces to General Naulin and set out from Fez for Paris. To correspondents at Marseilles he remarked, "The military action is terminated. I now turn over the task to the statesmen...
Meanwhile the French command in Morocco is organized as follows...
Popular opinion has frequently tended to undervalue the importance of the elections for Freshman dormitory committees. That this tendency can only have unfortunate results should not be difficult to demonstrate. For while it may be true that dormitory committees cannot command in the eyes of the college and the eyes of the college and the public at large the prestige held by the more pretentious councils and committees, still the dormitory committees, composed of the first elected officers of the class, have a very real opportunity to be of service to the class...
...usual limitations are that statements must not be false, slanderous, libelous, blasphemous, obscene, immoral, inimical to the public welfare or tend to create warfare or incite to sedition. They must not corrupt the public morals, incite to crime, disturb the peace, create anarchy, teach soldiers disobedience of their command, impede or hinder the Government in its functioning...