Word: commandeering
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While Chancellor Marx pondered the goose quill's command, last week, enemies of Paul von Hindenburg raised a feeble cry that it is "unconstitutional" for him to throw his immense influence into the political scale. They carpingly pointed out that, although the new presidential epistle stresses the need of postponing a general election until the budget and other, bills can be rushed through, the "real" concern of President Hindenburg may lie ill delaying as long as possible that shift to the political left which is generally prognosticated as the result of the coming election...
Because the German Army has long been suspected of Monarchist leanings, the Reichstag harkened attentively last week when new and fiery Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener declared roundly from its rostrum that the forces under his command are now "pledged and loyal" to the Republic...
Married. Eugene Dieudonne, recently pardoned life-term convict who escaped from Devil's Island; to his former wife who divorced him 16 years ago, at his own command, when he was first sentenced; in Paris...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Horrid foreigners doing wholly dreadful things rather delightfully (TIME...
...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...