Word: commandeering
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Tokyo backed him up by sending an aircraft carrier and four destroyers. At Admiral Shiosawa's command were ten Japanese warships and 1,300 troops...
...throne of Italy immediately after the war felt the republican quakes that ran through Europe, but its foundations were renewed and strengthened when a statesman of fortune marched on Rome and assumed command of the country. Since Mussolini stepped out of the wings into the bald light of European politics Italy's King has been a handsome figure for his people to revere--for the opportunity is occasionally given them. But now they have become dissatisfied with just a King, they want an Emperor, a Holy Roman Emperor...
Captain Adolphus Watson, U. S. N., Chief-of-Staff in command of cruisers of the battle fleet, arrives in Cambridge today to take up his new duties as director of the Naval Science course at Harvard. Captain Watson, who comes from San Podro, California, succeeds Captain Bonyaurd Bourno Wygant, U. S. N., as professor of Naval Science and Tactics...
Captain Wygant left the University two weeks ago following an order from the Navy Department to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, one of the newest and best equipped ships in the Navy...
...made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then he would snort angrily at the "injustice...