Word: commandeering
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...There is only one law in the Heimwehr. I command and you obey. . . . Every leader down to the last man must henceforth avenge every Nazi attack. If legal authorities fail to mete out justice, take the law into your own hands...
...nature of things, public men are public property: but, with the President, who should command the highest respect of the nation, it is different...
...Plan. Following one year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he returned to Harvard in 1928 to serve two years as a Freshman dean, and then, in 1929 went to New York to take up advertising work. On September 1, 1932 he was called back to Harvard to assume command of the University News Office...
Having withdrawn quietly and in good order following its costly defeat in 1932, the Republican high command last week took steps to consolidate its new position preparatory to the opening of Congress Jan. 3. First digging-in occurred in the office of Oregon's Charles Linza McNary, the Senate's minority leader. Slim of body and quick of brain, Senator McNary is personally popular with all factions of the G. 0. P. To his rooms in the Senate Office Building went two rich, prominent and ambitious Republican has-beens, onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills...
...more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed an unrestricted truce. Peace in Chaco seemed at hand...