Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominal Secretary of the Treasury, "and they are going right back to the Philadelphia Mint to be made over. The President doesn't like them. They make him too young and show him wearing an Army hair-cut." Next day the President made over his Treasury Department command...
...expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure command of any foreign language either as a tool to scholarship or as an independent intellectual experience...
...than the excellence of its instruction in Latin and Greek. To preserve uniformity in the admission to A.B. candidacy, the Latin reading requirement should be retained. All A.B. candidates should also be examined upon entrance for a thorough knowledge of one modern language. As a further assurance that their command of a foreign language was not a surface acquirement whose liberal end would never be achieved, they should be required to pass at Harvard, a course in the literature of the modern language which they elected...
...Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion. Mrs. Roosevelt rides her horse Dot in Rock Creek Park for fun. To get herself places she has at her command airplanes, trains and a blue Buick convertible coupe. Since March 4 she has traveled incessantly up & down the nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies and its surface so thoroughly that, in epitomizing her ubiquity for the ages, the New Yorker pictured...
Scripps-Howard's high command was scarcely to be blamed for regarding Fusion's victory as their own. Certainly the World-Telegram had done more to help LaGuardia than any other New York paper. Its interest in the election had started when Publisher Howard inaugurated the "Write In McKee" campaign that brought the onetime President of the Board of Aldermen 264,000 votes in last year's by-election after Tammany's Mayor Jimmy Walker was hounded into exile. That campaign ripened the acquaintance between Mr. Howard and Mr. McKee into friendship. Last summer Publisher Howard...