Word: commandeering
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...Cornellians in the War, 264 were killed. First appearance of the U.S. flag at the French front was in May 1917 when it was displayed as a Cornell unit under French command. Barred from the University's memorial was the name of one Cornell graduate (Hans Friedrich Wagner, 1912) who died fighting for Germany. Fortnight ago Cornell undergraduates started a fund to give him a memorial...
...Omaha, Neb. Brig.-General LeRoy Eltinge was delirious, refused to take medicine prescribed for him. He cried to the nurse: "Who are you to tell me, the commander of an entire brigade, what to do?" The nurse masked her voice and growled: "I am General Pershing; I command you to take your medicine." Delirious General Eltinge raised his hand in a feeble salute, took the medicine, soon died...
...came from Bernard Mannes Baruch, astute white eagle of Wall Street. As chairman of the War Industries Board, which mobilized and controlled business to supply the Army during the War, Mr. Baruch learned from experience all about war profiteering. To eradicate it he proposed a Federal command of still-pond-no-more-moving. "In modern warfare," he testified, "administrative control must replace the law of supply and demand. To measure inflation of price and profit we must have some norm. The obvious norm is the whole price structure as it existed on some antecedent date near to the declaration...
Rose Marie four times (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). Before the Royal Courts last week came the night of Their Majesties annual "command performance" at a music hall. Occasion: charity. (His Majesty's liege subject Charles Spencer Chaplin had refused to perform [TIME, May 18], sent a charitable contribution of $1,000 which he contemptuously called "about as much as I earned in my last two years on the English stage.") Place: the Palladium Music Hall, jammed as usual with men and women who like belly-laughs, smoke and beer. Because this was George V's first public appearance...
...bill were two U. S. acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...