Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since this blocking of the Japanese came two weeks after the Imperial Government launched their big spring offensive to take Suchow, the checkmated Japanese War Machine was so far behind schedule last week as to stand disgraced, particularly since at all times the Japanese have had command of the air. Every Chinese was fit to burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance...
...During the War, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was German Daredevil No. 1, and No. 2 was Airman Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, after the death of No. i, took over command of the famed Richthofen Squadron, daredevils...
...school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house for New Bolshevik talent, Russia's Proletarian Writer Fedor Butenko was put with such speed that two months ago, only two years after he matriculated, he was in full command of the Soviet legation at Bucharest, Rumania as Chargé d'Affaires. His unfortunate superior, the Soviet Minister, had just "disappeared...
John O'Hara's first two novels impressed critics for two reasons. They revealed his command of native dialect and his willingness to enter into the minds of recognizable U. S. types to see what made them tick. Thus, in Appointment in Samarra, he explored the consciousness of a Pennsylvania Cadillac dealer who committed suicide; in Butter field 8, the crossed-up life of a New York speakeasy girl who had better reasons for letting herself...
When Germany's 98th Alpine Infantry reached Brenner Pass (Italian frontier), its officers exchanged friendly and formal greetings with the Italian command on the other side of the line...