Word: commandership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Left of the Senate that they considered seating him in the Left hand cloakroom for a time, he has a rather limited legal and judicial experience. He practiced in Seattle for about 11 years, and his other accomplishments (listed by himself in his "congressional Record" autobiography) include the Stage Commandership of the American Legion in 1922, and the fact that he is bachelor, residing with his mother." The recently-defeated Governor Murphy of Michigan, known as the friend of the C.I.O. is anathema to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, which recently gained the upper hand, and his appointment...
...joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
...authority, New Jersey realty heir; by Margaret Dorothy Hurt Isham, 30; in Manhattan. Charges: cruelty and abandonment. After his 1915 separation from his first wife Marion, daughter of Manhattan's late Mayor William Jay Gaynor, he enlisted as a British Army private, rose to lieutenant colonel, won a Commandership of the Order of the British Empire. Last week his lawyer said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement to avoid a scandalous "confession...