Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that made possible unity of command for the military forces...
...Russian troops the Kremlin High Command has thrown against the eastern side of the Karelian bottleneck are probably the most miserable-looking creatures to be seen in uniform in this part of Europe since Napoleon's half-starved soldiers straggled back from Moscow. This is not anti-Bolshevist propaganda, but hard fact...
Story of a young duchess who marries her steward, only to be persecuted and finally strangled to death at the command of her disapproving brothers, The Duchess of Malfi. swirls with the dark, cruel, guilty emotions of the Elizabethan theatre. Its splendid imaginativeness, its impassioned poetry, lift it above mere violence and gore. But it is horrifying rather than terrifying: there is so much bloodshed at the end it is impossible to keep stabs...
...confused with Manhattan's Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, second in command in the U. S. Buchmanite movement...
...preparations for an Allied Army there, added interest to the commentary. With Finland getting hers from Russia, and with Rumania apparently earmarked next, it was newsworthy bluff, if not noteworthy fact, when Generalissimo Gamelin said he feels free now for a war of maneuver-somewhere. His High Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive...