Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more in command, Old Guardsmen were prepared to force fresh votes on lumber, aluminum, hides, shoes, leather, oil?all the items on which the Coalition had won primary victories, and on which it now faced ultimate defeat...
Soon from the Vatican came the Summus Pontifex's command that every church in Rome should hold a service of expiation. This was done forthwith...
...Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full progress, Courier Cabot dashed onward. Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American Legation, retired to the city's fortress, took command of the garrison...
...supposedly invested by virtue of his learning and taste with the right to interpret the esthetic trend to the commonalty, to denounce that which he considers bad and proclaim that which he considers good. In any society pretending to cultivation and beauty, the position of art critic should obviously command renown and respect. Yet who can name an art critic...
...Harry Everett Barnard, director of the President's Conference on Child Health Protection, warned school teachers against propaganda issued by food-products manufacturers. "Every idea in the field of nutrition has promptly found its way into the school room and carried with it fads and foolishness to command the attention of the teacher and her children until the next new thought supplanted...