Word: commandeering
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Last week, at President Roosevelt's direction, the War Department issued an order summarily relieving General Hagood of his command, ordering him to proceed from his headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. to his home at Orangeburg, S. C. to "await orders...
Outclassed finally is the Republican high command by the Democratic intelligence service, which is 218-lb. Emil Hurja...
...this is not an academic pastime for Mr. Hurja. With his black book in hand he sits thumbing the pages and tells the Democratic high command: "We have this State sure-waste no effort on it." "We are certainly going to lose that State-ignore it." "Now here's a doubtful State that may be won or lost!" To Boss Farley who directs the flow of campaign funds, to the President who has a speech to make, a WPA project to announce, such advice is invaluable...
With all this detailed information at his private command, Emil Hurja probably knows better than any man in the country today the answer to the question: "What chance has Roosevelt of being beaten...
Already in the streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...