Word: commandeering
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...farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other, trade with the rest of the world...
Next came a file of potent witnesses who testified that they could find no connection between the character of the cinema's Princess Natasha and Princess Youssoupov. Most impressive was Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson. Now a Conservative M. P. for Birmingham, he is the son of famed Poet Frederick Locker-Lampson. During the War he went to Russia in command of a squadron of armored cars. Last week in London he testified...
...prohibition legally impossible when disguised was legally possible when it was made explicit. The practical difference between the prohibition of liquor and the prohibition of child labor is also clear. The first is a sumptuary law, with evanescent popular support, the second is an obvious social reform, which commands and should continue to command the allegiance of the American community...
...American Press, however jealous of constitutional encroachments on its liberty, stands strangely apathetic to the Common Weal when threatened with loss of fat advertising contracts. Over three months have elapsed without action on the Bill, and daily it sinks further into the background as other issues arise to command the attention of the administration. In another three months of carefully regulated silence the Tugwell-Copeland Bill, like so many other good but "inopportune" measures, will die amidst the rejoicing of the quacks and their advertising confreres...
...movie. Death opens and closes the covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone. Two are sent...