Word: commandeering
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...declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead of night...
...after the death of Mrs. Bierbower. Elsie Janis has since written for the cinema, performed on the radio, helped produce a revue (New Faces), married a salesman 16 years her junior. Last week Miss Janis, now 47, an nounced her intention to carry out literally Christ's command, Go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor (Matthew...
...Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned as such in Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937. Further, His Majesty let it be understood that there is no reason why a multiple monarch should...
...Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four more wives, later a fifth. They were not love-matches. A son of Wife No. 5 once...
...left home, settled with fellow-Saints in Missouri. When local antagonism against the Mormons got too hot for them, the Riches went along with their brethren on the 1,100-mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. As a hard working, efficient officer, finally as second in command of the Mormon army (the Nauvoo Legion), Charles Rich made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank to one of the Twelve Apostles, soon...