Word: commandership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combined morning & evening newspaper, put out by two separate staffs. The morning editions are more or less orthodox. The evening Globe has a splashy, garish makeup, screams in black, tricky headlines. Sample: MRS. COOLIDGE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RUN (when the former President's wife refused the commandership of Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps). Last week the evening Globe headlined a story of Axis forces trapped on Tunisia's Cap Bon: BOTTLED...
...board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...
Canceled by King George VI was the honorary commandership of the Order of the British Empire awarded in 1929 to Norwegian Major Vidkun Quisling...