Word: commandeering
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...have been taught to work hard and gain from our acres everything they could possibly produce-to nurture our animals thriftily and gain from nature the last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there...
Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
...Commission. When Mayor Rolph got to be Governor in 1930 he appointed Florist Rossi to the mayoralty. Mayor Rossi survived by a narrow margin an election in 1931 in which the city charter was changed, making him a "strong mayor." Last week he needed all the power at his command...
...automobile shot him up to the steps of the Capitol. Surrounded by plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long...
...Comrade Yagoda retains direction of most of his old spies, who now become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...