Word: commandership
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...combined morning & evening newspaper, put out by two separate staffs. The morning editions are more or less orthodox. The evening Globe has a splashy, garish makeup, screams in black, tricky headlines. Sample: MRS. COOLIDGE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RUN (when the former President's wife refused the commandership of Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps). Last week the evening Globe headlined a story of Axis forces trapped on Tunisia's Cap Bon: BOTTLED...
...board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...
Canceled by King George VI was the honorary commandership of the Order of the British Empire awarded in 1929 to Norwegian Major Vidkun Quisling...
...Left of the Senate that they considered seating him in the Left hand cloakroom for a time, he has a rather limited legal and judicial experience. He practiced in Seattle for about 11 years, and his other accomplishments (listed by himself in his "congressional Record" autobiography) include the Stage Commandership of the American Legion in 1922, and the fact that he is bachelor, residing with his mother." The recently-defeated Governor Murphy of Michigan, known as the friend of the C.I.O. is anathema to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, which recently gained the upper hand, and his appointment...
...joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...