Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...
...free-lanced against the Poles in 1919-20 under General Höfer, then rejoined Germany's post-Versailles army of 100,000. In 1922 he was called to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, got his majority in 1925, his first regimental command in 1928. Three years later he was Chief of Staff of the First Division, in 1932, a full colonel. Then he went to Prague for three years as military attache for Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania. Germany did not have left many competent officers of his generation and he was soon commissioned a major general, Chief...
...clear blue waters of Mare Nostrum lurked Italian submarines. The Italian press showed no signs of abating its anti-Ally campaign, and across the Alps in Germany a visiting Fascist Grand Councilman, one Pietro Capoferri, cried to a group of chemical workers: "When Il Duce gives us the command we will march with you, to the triumph of justice and liberty...
Stowe's story caused enough stir so that a British communiqué was issued calling it a "distortion of the facts." British newspapers (except the Times of London) carried extracts from it and demanded greater frankness from the High Command. Correspondent Stowe and his employers squeezed their "beat" for every drop of blood, even claimed that the Chamberlain Government might have fallen had the full Stowe text reached the British public...
...Dark Command (Republic) continues Hollywood's efforts to vary the pattern of its western thrillers by substituting the American Civil War for Indian raids. Last installment was Warner's Virginia City. This one takes place in Lawrence, Kans., circa 1860, spectacularly chronicles the misdeeds of Outlaw Quantrell, Kansas' Civil War guerrilla, here thinly disguised as Outlaw Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon). Thrilling shot: the wagon, in which Claire Trevor, Roy Rogers and John Wayne are escaping the bad man, hurtling at breakneck speed off a high Kansas cliff...