Word: commandeering
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Without declaring martial law (he did not have to because Washington is Federal territory). President Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to call out the Army from Fort Myer in nearby Virginia. Secretary Hurley passed the command along to handsome, well-tailored General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, in the following crisp dispatch...
...June 16, 1930). Next thing Premier Maniu knew he was ousted. The King and his favorites were spending right & left, bankrupting Rumania. In silence and in dignity Professor Maniu retired to his law books among the peasants of Transylvania. Last week he took his time about obeying the Royal "command" to come to Bucharest and save for Rumania once more...
...then Director of Military Education and directly responsible for the cadets. General Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command of 1) the Government of the Japanese Leased [from China] Territory of Kwantung; 2) the Japanese Kwantung Army; 3) the Japanese Army in Manchuria proper and all parts of the so-called independent state of "Manchoukuo"; 4) all Japanese con suls throughout Manchoukuo...
...told the Prophet Ezekiel to ". . . take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel...
...pneumonia; in a monastery at Pernitz, Austria. A professor of moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine craft the bald, beak-nosed cleric put the Christian Socialists in command of the Austrian Republic, fortified his party rule with the Heimwehr (Home Guard). Austria was bankrupt. Chancellor Seipel visited in turn all the European capitals, making the nations believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria an international loan, prevented civil war. He resigned the chancellorship...