Word: commandered
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...announcements made in March, there were assembled in the waters of the middle Atlantic, early in May, a score of revenue cutters (Customs Service), a dozen submarine chasers (borrowed from the U.S. Navy) and nearly 100 picket boats and larger vessels belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard under the command of Rear Admiral Billard. All these vessels were put at the disposal of General Lincoln C. Andrews, recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (TIME, April 13). He directed them, under the general supervision of Secretary Mellon...
...June 3, 1864, General Grant gave the command to attack. His soldiers were led by Generals Sheridan, H. G. Wright, W. F. Smith, Burnside. The village was defended by Generals Hoke, Kershaw, Pickett, Field, Early, under General...
...German people have placed me at the head of the Reich. According to the Constitution, I take over this day the chief command of the Wehrmacht. I greet the Army and Navy with pride...
...doctrine of the landowner than as a doctrine of the tenants. This case denotes a change of opinion by part of the oldest aristocracy, for the present Duke of Alba, 17th of his line, is descended from the famous first Duke, who was compelled, at his King's command, to apologize to the Pope for defeating him, whose ghastly "Court of Blood" in the Netherlands was one of the outstanding horrors of the 16th Century and who boasted that he had sent some 18,000 people to the executioner...
...delivered himself of the following utterance to the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers : "In the course of some researches, preliminary to these remarks, I found myself needing a more accurate definition of a certain trade term, no doubt thoroughly familiar to all of you, than I was able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud...