Word: commandeering
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With 500 troopers and highway patrolmen at his command Col. Augustine S. Janeway gave the plant's general manager until 12:30 a. m. Sunday to comply with the shut-down order. Nothing happened. Forthwith the colonel posted troopers at the gates with instructions to allow no one to enter, though anyone was free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations...
...those persons who think they are more important and powerful than the law and who take the law in their own hands, will be prosecuted promptly and most vigorously, and in this I want to say that I will have the entire resources of this great State at my command...
...crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June 14), the chief fisherman was bald old Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee...
University high command in tour to Indianpolis...
...without a tussle had the Pennsylvania tax been jammed through at the personal command of Governor Earle. The chains amassed petitions from their customers, lined up the press and the farmers in almost solid opposition. Once last spring after Columbia Broadcasting System refused to allow speakers to blast the bill in an A. & P. broadcast, big advertisements appeared with the scarehead: THIS is THE STORY THE RADIO KEPT FROM You. Below the condensed versions of undelivered speeches were the signatures not only of the principal chains but also of the Chester County Dairymen's Co-Operative Association, the Lehigh...