Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warfare "unity of command" is essential. Lack of such "unity of command" has probably been the cause of more defeats and disasters in military history than any other one contributing cause. It nearly caused the defeat in, and undoubtedly prolonged, the two greatest wars in our history-the Civil War and the World War. After such experience it is unthinkable that any nation could deliberately prepare its forces for national defense, so as to insure divided responsibilities and divided command in every possible theatre of operations. Yet that is just what is proposed...
General Hines mentioned, as an example of divided command, a case during the World War in which 150 U. S. planes were led off to make an attack, and in their absence a German squadron appeared and did damage to U. S. ground forces...
...branch of the Army as a mere subordinate sec-who has become a U. S. citizen, in 21 years has increased the resources of the Army in the U. S. from $1,500,000 to $32,000,000. Three years ago her brother removed her from her command, but there was such a flood of protest that she was reinstated for three years...
Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...
...profession of teaching must renounce all hopes of a respectable income and serve for the joy of serving. In the Forum for October Mr. Frank Bohn iconoclastically scouts the logic of this attitude. If professors, by leaving the academic fold, he argues, can compete successfully in business and command salaries many times greater than those they received for teaching, there must indeed be something radically wrong in college administration. The blame for this situation the writer lays on the heads of the university presidents and boards of trustees who are "afflicted by our American craze for mere size." He relates...