Word: commandeering
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...smart President, to be reelected, must not overcapitalize on his office. With so much power and prestige at his command he must lean over backward to create the popular notion that being President of all the People is his first consideration and being a partisan candidate for another term is only of secondary importance. Such was President Hoover's air last week. Outwardly he took no official notice whatever of the fact that his party was assembled in Chicago to renominate...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week decided to take complete command of the Chicago convention which he confidently expects to nominate him for the Presidency a fortnight hence. His decision promptly embroiled his party in fresh squabbling and brought down upon his thin-thatched head a charge of bad faith...
...first morning. Then he would turn the presiding office over to Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa who as temporary chairman would sound the party's keynote. Next chunky, heavy-jowled Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell of New York would step forward to take command as permanent chairman, thus leaving the Republican House minority in Washington without a floor leader...
...Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...occasional game of billiards at the Pig & Whistle and books hard scrimped for are Schoolmaster Philip Jocelyn's outlets until Millicent, slightly anemic niece of the local bookdealer, comes to help in her uncle's shop. Philip gets himself engaged to Millicent who at once takes brittle command over his aimless, hungry existence. Occasionally Philip has done rough drawings which have sold for a few shillings. So that she can proceed unhampered with wedding plans, Millicent sends him away to sketch for a summer in France...