Word: commandeering
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...censorship can stop Cubans from talking. Havana, seeing the battle of Gibara through the bottoms of innumerable beer glasses, received a far more colorful picture: not three dozen Cubans but a foreign legion of 500 Cubans, French, Germans, Japanese and U. S. citizens had landed under command of a mysterious U. S. Colonel.* The streets ran with blood! There was bayonet fighting from house to house! Half of Gibara was destroyed...
...tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish of their hurleys.* Inspector Neville of the Civic Guards chased out the Republicans with a baton charge...
Died. Lester Lonergan, 62, actor (Brass Ankle) who staged Abraham Lincoln, The Command to Love; of heart failure while-sitting on a porch with his wife at Lynn, Mass., discussing Eugene O'Neill's newtrilogy, Mourning Becomes Electro, in which he was to have played...
...Governor Murray issued his shut-down order, he called in Cicero Irvin Murray, his second cousin and oil representative, commissioned him a lieutenant-colonel in the Oklahoma guard, sent him forth in command of the oil field troops. No military man, Lieut.-Colonel Murray was ably assisted by Major Abe Herskowitz. About 200 youngsters in khaki made up their military force. Major Herskowitz, in a final "fight talk" at their armory, told them: "Now, boys, you're going on a bivouac. Don't forget to keep your rifles clean." At the Oklahoma City field Lieut.-Colonel Murray picked...
...referendum was failing the most serious street fighting broke out that Germany has seen since the Bloody May Day of 1929 (TIME, May 13, 1929) In Bulow Square police with rifles in their hands patrolled the streets near the Communist headquarters, Liebknecht House. Suddenly, as at a given command, spurts of fire burst from the windows, from nearby roofs. Two police captains were killed, several schupos were wounded. Riot squads tore through the streets. Searchlights flickered on the houses and the Communists, dragging their wounded with them, were driven from building to building. About midnight firing ceased. No exact casualty...