Word: commandeering
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...Railroad Brotherhoods vowed revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have run up the white flag and withdrawn from the case, thus allowing it to go by default...
Jovan Plamenatz, who recently tried to gain admittance into the United States on a passport issued by himself, was, it is authoritatively reported, ejected from Italy by command of the Mussolini Government, following repeated requests for his expulsion by the Yugo-Slavian Government...
Admiral Robert E. Coontz comes into the command of the combined United States Fleet. In this post he succeeds Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who was in command during the recent maneuvers. The new commander-in-chief is 58 years old. He was born in Mark Twain's home town of Hannibal, Mo. After his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1885 he rose successively through the various ranks, and he was made Admiral...
Admiral Coontz. On June 30 he will take command of our fleet...
...curious to know how it had been possible to develop such a volume of line advertising, quoting store items, as in newspapers in large cities. The President said that it was because the stores in Marion were in a position to command local trade, which, in the case of many towns, was drawn off to nearby cities. They had discovered the economic value of newspaper advertising...