Word: commandeering
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...Director of Safety, charged with cleaning up speakeasies and vice, his robust language (sample: "I ought to pull his [the mayor's] nose") got him ousted after about a year. He went back to the Marines, was sent to California. There he denounced and courtmartialed his predecessor in command of the post on charges of drunkenness after entertaining General Butler in his home. From California he went to China, where he so comported himself that last week the Navy Department issued a booklet which praises his peace-making efforts there. When he returned to take charge of the Marine...
...Prohibition subject. As is illustrated by the pamphlet mentioned above, many we reformers have been setting the British system up as the solution to America's most virus problem. It substantiated with the elements of truth, the results of this research discredit the English type of Houor regulation and command the impartial attention of wets as well as supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Although Cosmo Gordon Lang is second in command after King George V (titular head of the Church of England), William Temple, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, is a potent and virtually independent third. It would require a convocation of both archdioceses, such as met four years ago, to formulate such a new Office for the entire Church of England...
Despite the fact that a harrassed, if not a helpless, Congress is faced with a nation wide orisis in unemployment, the veterans want several billions of dollars put into their pockets right away. The command mentions only the relief for disabled veterans, but the blanket bonus is the real driving force...
...lieutenant in the Haitian Garde he was put in command of a squad of native troops on La Gonave, a sparsely settled, primitive island (35 mi. by 3 mi.) three-and-one-half hours by motorboat from Port-au-Prince out in the bay. The black islanders swarmed down to greet Lieut. Wirkus, for Timemenne, their queen, had told them of his great goodness. Later tom-toms tommed. Clarine† flowed down black throats. Ebony girls danced soberly. And upon the unruly yellow hair of the white man was put a tall crown of silk, glass bits, sea shells...