Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undersigned is in command of one of the Civilian Conservation Corps work camps and can speak from first-hand knowledge of the workings of the Corps...
...executive order last week the 15% Federal pay cut was extended from June 30 to Dec. 31. Reason: There had not yet been any material rise in the cost of living. C. Secretary of the Interior Ickes at the President's command became Administrator of Public Works, replacing acting Administrator Donald H. Sawyer. Secretary Ickes kept his Cabinet...
...Curtis who is vice president of the orchestra association. Also Curtis heads, as president, the social Philadelphia Forum (lectures, dances, music) and sits on the Committee of Seventy for political reform. Professionally the destiny of the Curtis regime is difficult to read. Brother Gary is training himself for technical command but it may well be the voice of Brother Curtis that is some day heard speaking his politico-social creed through their magazines...
...ready to believe in his feeling for Irina (Kay Francis), at whose country house his troops have been quartered. The day when her robust old husband Dushan (Walter Huston) finds out is also the day when Geza is in danger of being court-martialed by the officer in command of the town. Irina goes to warn him to escape. Dushan follows to create a scene. The commanding officer arrives last of all but Dushan has meanwhile made up his mind how to handle his situation. He persuades Captain Panto to accompany him in pursuit of the lovers, who are really...
...concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed the Brown Daily Herald pledge to renounce war would man the machine guns, and athletes who shook hands over the net would be hurling grenades at each other over barbed wire. The roll of Harvard dead as it stands in the Memorial Chapel...