Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang of onetime Long bodyguards leaped to the attack. In the District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...
...South. Fighting was fiercer, Italian progress more impressive. Troops under command of General Rudolfo Graziani were stretched not 60 but 400 mi. on a "provincewide front" from the Webbe Shibeli almost to the borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming...
Though Marshal Pietro Badoglio made an 800-mile flight from G. H. Q. at Asmara straight across Ethiopia to the headquarters of the Southern Army, the expected simultaneous advance did not take place, nor was there any general shake-up in the Italian command...
...morning-after view. Early last week Premier Laval had at last intimated strongly to London that some of Britain's 147 war boats should be withdrawn from the zone of tension, leaving only some 80 fighting craft, the usual British Mediterranean Fleet. This fleet has secured to Britain command of the Mediterranean since the War of the Spanish Succession 230 years ago, according to Mr. Churchill, who is slated to be the next First Lord of the British Admiralty. The French position was that Britain should not now have more than her usual "control of the Mediterranean...
...summer of 1920 an examination was held for the first pupils, who were to act as assistants to the higher troop command. On Oct. 1, training began, fixed at two years. On Oct. 1, 1923 a third year at the Reichswehr Ministry was added. From Oct. 1, 1932 courses for leadership assistants were combined in 'officers' courses in Berlin. Since May 1, 1935 these courses again have borne the name 'War Academy.' With them, even in externals, the old example has been reincarnated, and the new army possesses that important training ground for leadership to which...