Word: commandeering
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Confederate Generals would well serve as a guard of honor for their President-Edmund Kirby Smith from Florida, whom Davis saw fighting at Bull Run, the last Confederate Commander to surrender his arms (May 26, 1865); Joseph Wheeler from Alabama, second only to Stuart as a cavalry general, who lived long enough to command U. S. troops as a major-general of volunteers at the Battle of San Juan in the Spanish War; Wade Hampton from South Carolina, aristocrat and planter, leader of "Hampton's Legion" at Bull Run, commander of Lee's cavalry after Stuart...
...General's dynastic gesture, in which he copied the procedure by which he had received the Command from his father, the late great General William Booth, met with stout resistance from overwhelming Army factions opposed to the Booth dynasty. Then began the battle of the Booths, which raged for months, in which Booths fought Booths, anti-Booths fought all Booths (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928, et seq.). Ultimately Commissioner Edward John Higgins, International Chief of Staff, anti-Booth, was elected General by the Army's High Council...
...Ingraham '31 over Stuart, captain of the Newton Center team, was one of the surprises of the match. Ingraham's game has not been consistent and his matches in which he displayed command of the situations have been interspersed with games in which he faltered. Saturday he dropped but one game to Stuart who had not suffered a defeat in the inter-club league tourney...
...Research which, having put its hand to the plow, will never turn back. Realizing that the generous grant of the Rockefeller Foundation provides only the necessary start, it believes that it has started an enterprise that will not only justify itself by results but will in ever-increasing degree command the support of friends and benefactors of Harvard University
...University to employ at its own discretion, justifies its existence. The inadequacy of teaching salaries is a complaint so often attuned to the public ear in this country that it generally falls on barren ground, but the fact remains that the men at the top of any other profession command incomes far exceeding those of the leading educators in the wealthiest colleges. As President Lowell states, the Alumni contribution is best put to use in increasing the salaries of the teaching staff. After four years of existence the Harvard Fund of the present serves its purpose well; the Fund...