Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock Saturday night...
...Airships should be assured "continuity of personnel." Only a highly trained officer who already had commanded a training ship should be given command of a regular airship. (This was prompted by the Navy's present routine of sending airship officers to sea; and by the fact that the late Captain McCord had never commanded an airship prior to the Akron. On the day the committee's report was published the Navy Department ordered Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor...
...soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...rainy season, which has kept hostilities at a standstill, is nearly over. Bolivia's troops, under command of German General Hans Kundt, have been preparing for a new offensive by bombing Paraguayan bases from the air. Fortnight ago Paraguayan President Ayala made a dangerous statement...
When the War came Bob had nowhere else to go. He worked so hard as a soldier, did so well that he was finally promoted to major, put in command of a Negro battalion, all venereal cases. Solace in these trying times was Woman No. 7, Bella, lusty wife of a shriveled colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other...