Word: second-in-command
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...miraculously escaped and returned to the unit. Pilot Cooper later wrote for the New York Times, then set out to film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures. Including replacements and the six Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper is the only U. S. member who has made a name...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station from Washington went Lieut. Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
When Captain Roberts went to his lonely blockhouse on the Afghan border he left another man's wife behind him. She did not write; he wondered why. When Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again...
...Alexander Boole of the W. C. T. U.; Chairman (Bishop) James Cannon Jr., of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and President (Bishop) William Fraser Mc Dowell of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Second-in-command under Chairman Callahan on the new committee will be Dr. Arthur James Barton, chief of the Southern Baptist Social Service Commission; third-in-command, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the Anti-Saloon League; fourth, Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost of the W. C. T. U.'s West Virginia chapter...
...Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and his mates in Little America, Antarctica, saw the sun again as southern hemisphere spring approached. Commander Byrd hoisted the U. S. flag?also British and Norwegian flags?for the first time since April and said: "This is a big day for us, because of the return of the sun, and a bigger day because it is Larry's [Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command] birthday." Wrote Russell Owens, official correspondent (New York Times]: "The ice cliffs sparkled like gigantic mirrors winking back a message of welcome to the sun as if there was some secret...