Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures a chance to renew acquaintances with long abandoned intellectual hobbies, and the news of modern educational trends has served to clear up their ordinarily muddled opinions on that subject. From his own point of view, the alumnus has found much profit oven in the limited activities at his command...
...escaped and returned to the unit. Pilot Cooper later wrote for the New York Times, then set out to film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures. Including replacements and the six Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper is the only U. S. member who has made a name...
...question "Who commanded the Army during the War?" nine persons out of ten will erroneously answer "Pershing." Command of the Army was (and is always) vested in the Chief of Staff at Washington under whom General Pershing served as a subordinate in charge only of the A. E. F. During the 19 months of U. S. war four generals in succession were Chief of Staff-Hugh Lenox Scott, Tasker Howard Bliss, John Biddle and Peyton Conway March, General March, long, lean, bearded son of a college professor, took command in March 1918 and carried the Army through the Armistice. Last...
...last week. A committee to look into railroad problems was appointed by the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, the members of which own 13% of all railroad bonds. And vague rumors were afloat in Wall Street that Calvin Cool idge, Alfred Emanuel Smith and others whose voices could command the respect of investors and legislators, would soon look into the railroad situation. There was truth in the story, though its exact nature was probably to remain nebulous for some weeks. It was apparent that the railroads, a blight on the U. S. economic structure, will receive further attention...
...when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...