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Word: command (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boole of the W. C. T. U.; Chairman (Bishop) James Cannon Jr., of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and President (Bishop) William Fraser Mc Dowell of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Second-in-command under Chairman Callahan on the new committee will be Dr. Arthur James Barton, chief of the Southern Baptist Social Service Commission; third-in-command, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the Anti-Saloon League; fourth, Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost of the W. C. T. U.'s West Virginia chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Co-Optimists | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...figure, less pretentious but nonetheless admired is Philadelphia's manager and part owner, Cornelius ("Connie Mack") McGillicuddy. He has gained fame through baseball -and baseball alone. He attends every game his Athletics play, invariably sits in the same place in the dugout, seldom raises his voice to command or correct. He last brought an American League pennant to Philadelphia in 1914, has since then watched his team fluctuate between the cellar and the next-to-top story. Meanwhile the masticating jaws of the fans in the ball park and of others all over the world never stopped supplying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Prime Minister" had turned from friend to foe. For the most part Italian-speaking, individualistic, the Maltese have always leaned less toward the Britain that owns them than toward the Italy that is near them.* The Fascisti retaliate with friendship, bitterly realizing that possession of Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Baron & Count | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...political party, is the strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Policeman Schober | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...have been more or less injured in play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more objective and intelligent than the players themselves under the excitement of the moment are always able to command. To turn the supervision of this matter over to medical officers is to invite the suspicion that they are merely carrying out a coach's instructions. Nevertheless, I am sure that any one of several possible procedures would care for this case satisfactorily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

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