Word: commandeering
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What kept the balance for the Government were airplanes, but they were mostly light pursuit planes, good for strafing troops but unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...
...precisely that he is not President. Last week the Chinese Communist armies, which the Government reports "almost exterminated" every few months, were again giving Generalissimo Chiang so much trouble that he placed himself at the head of forces rushing to avenge the murder of an Australian missionary. Left in command at Nanking was the versatile and brilliant Premier of China, Mr. Wang Ching-wei. Today he is carrying the awful onus of secret negotiations with Japan, fateful to China's whole future-the future of the most populous nation in the world...
...shield of Palestine on its Union Jack, his Red Star and Bernstein Line ships fly the black swastika of Germany. Only important Jewish shipping man left in Hitler's Reich, he enjoys government protection chiefly because of his distinguished War record, which included an important artillery command on the Western Front and the Iron Cross, first class. Soon after the War this Saxon-born son of a well-to-do shipping broker decided to go into business for himself. Backed by friends' money, he bought a dozen British freighters grown rusty in the Australia trade, reconditioned them...
Lieutenant Talley was in command of the engineers sent to relieve the city of Managua after the earthquake there in 1929. The city had caught fire after the quake and the engineers battled the fire without water for five days before...
...business. The sole questions were: 1) Had he given proper and sufficient signals for the maneuver? 2) Was there sufficient space for the ships to maneuver in safety? Admiral Bailey's defender in court (known officially as "the Prisoner's Friend") was his immediate predecessor in command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, Vice Admiral William Milburne James, grandson of the late great painter Sir John Everett Millais and known to all the British Navy as "Bubbles...