Word: depotism
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...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...
Appropriate steps were: to order out the air force; send the Peruvian cruiser Coroncl Bolognesi with 400 troops, the depot ship Lima to bottle up rebels in Mollendo; demand pledges of loyalty from the remaining military commanders...
...Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
...Remainder of Denmark's navy-in-miniature: five fishing patrol vessels, 20 torpedo boats, 14 submarines, one depot ship, one minelayer...
Quartermaster General John Lesesne De Witt explained that the Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...