Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike on July i, the President did not allow himself to be surprised a second time. Six days before the postponed strike was due again, he wrote to miners and operators asking them to postpone the strike a fourth time to Sept. 16. Graciously miners and operators accepted his "command," hoping for passage in the meantime of the Guffey Coal bill...
...kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...
...fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter. I showed him worth by folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed- (Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment if he erred, And-outboard-ocean waiting to betray him. VIII "Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in duty held him bound, So that not power misled nor ease...
James Edward Davidson is a name to command respect among Nebraskans. In 1923 Mr. Davidson was King of Ak Sar Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...
...even Joe Kennedy with his Olympian police powers cannot go forth within his precinct and command companies to borrow money that they do not need. All he can do, as he has done, is to make it easy for the honest. He has stumped the land proclaiming his credo: "No honest business need fear the SEC." He has been not only a good policeman, but also a polite one, insisting that all SEC subordinates be courteous and cooperative. Doing business is infinitely more difficult than before the New Deal but bankers now know that it can be done...