Word: commandeering
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Runners. Of more importance than office to Mr. McAdoo, however, was his chance to command the ear of the man who may next occupy the White House. Every President gathers about him a little group of party insiders who may be said to "run" him. He heeds their advice, follows their suggestions. President Harding was "run" by Secretary of State Hughes, Attorney General Daugherty, Interior Secretary Fall and Mrs. Harding. The real powers in the Coolidge administration were Massachusetts' Senator Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Speaker of the House Longworth. President Hoover's ear is wide open...
...President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station. At his command the guards slid open the side doors. Using seats to bridge the gap between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers through the local train safely to the station platform. Afterwards President Hedley explained: "My actions were unnecessary. My men are well-trained and know...
...corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after the hearing began Governor Roosevelt, who perhaps had even more at stake politically than the Mayor, demonstrated his complete command of the situation. Mayor Walker had brought along as his counsel blue-eyed, white-haired John J. Curtin, Brooklyn attorney, close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. "Let's throw away the law books. Let's forget there ever was a written law. Let's tackle this from...
...Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked the way to Portugal. Officer Segovia raised his rifle. Without more ado General...
...Trujillo jail one day last week at 5:30 a.m. Not far away they entered a line of badly constructed trenches which they had dug just a month ago in Trujillo's short bloody revolt (TIME, July 18). Soldiers lined the parapet. At a word of command the 44 men, helplessly dodging back & forth, were shot down. Thus last week did peppery little President Luis Sanchez Cerro signal the stability of his regime, celebrate the 111th anniversary of Peruvian independence...