Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pershing's inventory of U. S. military equipment when he took command: 285,000 Springfield rifles which had to be discarded; 1,500 machine guns; 400 pieces of field artillery; 150 heavy guns; ammunition enough for nine hours barrage fire; 55 training airplanes; 35 officers who could...
...lieutenant in the Haitian Garde he was put in command of a squad of native troops on La Gonave, a sparsely settled, primitive island (35 mi. by 3 mi.) three-and-one-half hours by motorboat from Port-au-Prince out in the bay. The black islanders swarmed down to greet Lieut. Wirkus, for Timemenne, their queen, had told them of his great goodness. Later tom-toms tommed. Clarine† flowed down black throats. Ebony girls danced soberly. And upon the unruly yellow hair of the white man was put a tall crown of silk, glass bits, sea shells...
...Lucia, a submarine tender arrived in Devonport (within Sir Hubert's command), 24 hours late, on New Year's day, giving her a very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...
...Right to Love (Paramount). In spite of the sincere and energetic attempts of Director Richard Wallace, Ruth Chatterton and a brilliant cast to make this picture command respect for its poetic content, the most interesting thing about it remains the technical perfection which it displays. Ruth Chatterton at 18 and Ruth Chatterton at 45 not only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch...
Died. Joseph Jacques Cesaire (beloved "Papa") Joffre, 78, Marshal of France, "Victor of the Marne," at Paris; of arteritis (TIME, Jan. 5). At the supreme moment on the Marne, Sept. 6, 1914, he issued his immortal command...