Word: commandeering
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...Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after "Big Tim's" doorbell had rung...
...U.S.S. Lexington, with Captain (now Admiral) Marshall in command, broke the world's record for 24-hr, runs, steaming 774 nautical miles in one day of a three-day run to Hawaii (TIME, June...
...TRAIL OF '98 (Dolores Del Rio on the "fantom" screen), WINGS (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), THE STRANGE CASE OF CAPTAIN RAMPER (Paul Wegener), THE LAST COMMAND (Emil Jannings...
...Called to command, he found himself a sort of Falstaff reviewing the tatterdemalions of politics, not a few of them outcasts from the G. O. P. He looked again and discovered also in the loose and undisciplined Hoover ranks, in addition to half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold...
...Pedro, Calif., bound for Honolulu. It broke the 24-hr, record the first day out, steaming 700 miles. It broke it again on the second day with 742 miles. On the third day it raced 770 miles to port. The Lexington with Capt. A. W. Marshall in command, had made the fastest sea passage ever logged between the U. S. and Hawaii, covering 2,228 nautical miles in 72 hours, 34 minutes; also the world's record for 24-hr, runs...