Word: commandeering
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...about 100 whom it had ordered to be ready to appear. The purpose of calling these witnesses was to contradict the testimony of the defense witnesses. Congressman Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, attacked their testimony in crossexamination. He questioned one witness, trying to show lack of unity of command in the war games at Hawaii last summer. The witness, Major J. J. Bain, drew a distinction between "unity of command" and "unity of direction," and Mr. Reid insisted on an explanation of the difference. In the midst of the examination Mr. Reid whirled around toward Brigadier General Edward L. King...
...Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority without Blum...
...split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...
...stepped nimbly forth and was whirled away to a secret conference with M. Herriot and M. Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union...
...Russian of Nikolai Evreinov specifically for their purpose. What they will make out of it remains to be seen. But the conditions that will permit a play to be chosen purely apart from commercial considerations, and the conviction that it is the superior order of creative art which should command the attention of the Dramatic Club, surely do not show that the drama in Harvard is in quite so lamentable a state of disrepute as it might conceivably...