Word: commandeering
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...most significant result of the Cedar Rapids' conferences which lasted two days, was the appointment, to command the G. O. P.'s farm bureau at Chicago headquarters, of John J. Oglesby. Thereby the mention of Farmers' Friend Lowden, in the West Branch speech, was underscored. Mr. Oglesby was Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois under Governor Lowden (1917-21). They are fast friends. Mr. Oglesby was a leading Lowdenizer before the nomination. Now he agreed heartily to Hooverize. Perhaps his first commission will be to soothe Mr. Lowden's lingering bitterness and bring him, reluctant but resigned, into...
...further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ...
Last week. Charles Hayden, affable, playful, cultured and immensely able head of an immensely potent firm of private bankers, Hayden, Stone & Co.; Charles Hayden, keen bridge player and a director of probably more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck...
...Titantic survivors, in water or lifeboat, were picked up by the Carpathia, Rostron in command. For this service the Commodore received the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...assisted twelve wallowing survivors into lifeboats. Then, through long grey hours he bobbed about in icy water, blowing air from his huge lungs into a leaky life preserver, until finally he heard the drawl of a familiar voice, "Oh I say, Claret, is that you?" The voice was in command of a British destroyer which rescued the almost expiring Claret...