Word: commandeering
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Senator Robinson (angrily)- ... I still assert with all the power and emphasis at my command that it is the duty of the Senate of the U. S. to go forward and do business and not make a pitiable and contemptible aspect of itself...
...great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers...
...this is not so with foreign armies. They retreat whenever they are at a disadvantage in battle. . . . This is no way of fighting! Our lives, from the very beginning, are given up for His Majesty!" (Elsewhere Lieut-General Araki has said that a Japanese officer, in extraordinary circumstances, may command his men to "advance" in a rearward direction...
Sirs: Your justification of yourself for your taste less references to Mr. Roosevelt is goosefood. I would like to be recorded among your readers who "command otherwise."; JOHN W. FARQUHAR Easton, Pa. Sirs: Your explanation of the several references in TIME to Mr. Roosevelt's physical infirmities only makes a bad matter worse. There is no excuse for such writing. TIME, frankly, needs some lessons in good manners. It lacks the fundamental virtue of reverence. . DAVID P. GAINES Minister First Baptist Church Waterbury, Conn. Sirs: . . . Don't let TIME descend to the stilted, prudish, uninteresting style...
...Eric H. Louw, South African Minister Plenipotentiary, hastened to comment, "The situation in South Africa is most paradoxical, the result of an acute political situation. . . . There is some hope that South Africa will soon return to the gold standard. . . . Much will depend upon whether the Government is able to command a majority when Parliament meets." First test of strength was expected to come Jan. 14 at a caucus of the Transvaal Nationalist Party. If Judge Roos captures the caucus from Premier Hertzog, that may start a landslide sweeping the Judge into the Premiership...