Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conciliated a strike of Jewish garment workers, the misery of many Jews first struck him strongly He read up-slowly as is his habit-on their problems, joined the Zionists in 1912. Two years later the World War threatened to disrupt the work of International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon: ''I was at Ivry...
...abolition of Dyarchy is expected to soothe native opinion and admit native statesmen to all ministries of the government. Eventually then, the Indian federation would be made up of locally self-governed states. But at the top of the whole pyramid the Viceroy must remain supreme, strong in his command of the army...
...command of the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, bespectacled "Son of Heaven," a gift which gurgled was despatched to the home of onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki last week immediately after his return from London where he was Chief Delegate of Japan at the Naval Conference (TIME...
Before dawn on May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
...died in November 1918. The Goodman Theatre, built below ground level behind the Art Institute to leave the South Parkway lake frontage unobstructed, cost $300,000 and was endowed with $150,000. When Thomas Wood Stevens, then head of Carnegie Institute's drama department, was placed in full command of the enterprise, artistic Chicagoans were delighted, predicted great things for the Goodman Theatre and creative stagecraft in Chicago. Week before last Director Stevens resigned his position, announcing that he and the Art Institute committee which governs the theatre were incompatible. Chicago's drama lovers wondered what the future...