Word: commandeering
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...Shanghai, however, the navy was not only doing most of the fighting but at least half of Japan's navy was in it. Flagship of the combined fleet was the 37-year-old British-built Idumo with lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four...
...Woodson & Watson" will read the battery of Presidential service aides next fall when Captain Walter B. Woodson, lately chief of staff & aide, Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, becomes Naval Aide, joining Military Aide Edwin M. Watson. His shore duty up, Naval Aide Paul H. Bastedo takes command of the U.S.S. Qnincy...
...what we are doing. ... As soon as we take the lash from above the heads of these judges over there, some more of them will retire. ... If these advisers who are counseling the President to force that bill into this House under pressure which they may be able to command, when we are trying to preserve strength and unity required to do the Nation's work, if they force that bill into this House for the sake of saving their faces or their hides, they ought not to have hide enough left to be worth bothering about...
...pictorial indictment of law enforcing agencies," the Paramount newsreel of the Republic Steel massacre in Chicago (TIME, July 12) was shown to ranking Manhattan police officers at a "command performance" by Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. Said the Commissioner: "We don't want any shooting here...
...Siberia and in North China. Their Majesties hurried from the seaside back to a highly excited Tokyo in which Premier Prince Konoye repeatedly held midnight cabinet councils with members of the General Staff. Japanese businessmen, as usual, could not find out whether Japanese soldiers had been fighting at the command of their Government or because their local Japanese commanders had decided that the local opportunities for getting in a few blows were too good to miss last week...