Word: edicted
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With their hotel profits, they bought a tobacco shop and later a candy store. When a wartime edict ordered all stores but drugstores to close after 6 p.m. each day, Ike and Mike quickly added drugs to their line-and found to their surprise that they would sell. When the cigarette tax was boosted a penny a pack, they put out a sign: "Katz pays...
...Senate Small Business Committee the CAB order has all the noose marks of a "death edict." CAB agreed this week to hold off its order for 30 days while the committee conducts a full investigation. Said Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, committee chairman: "It would appear outrageous to have . . . Government decree [the non-skeds] out of business...
...hours this week the thirty-eighth parallel was abolished. The imaginary line that has been worrying everyone from Lake Success to Seoul for almost a year succumbed suddenly to General MacArthur's edict that correspondents would not be allowed to mention it in their dispatches...
...smoky, second-floor room in Easton, Pa., Post Commander George Lacey told the sprawled Legionnaires of Brown and Lynch Post: "Fellows, there's nothing to discuss here. The national convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea...
...smoke got thicker, the talk angrier, and the post commander's bell rang more frantically. "Didn't the national Legion decide all this? What are we discussing it for?" demanded a fuddled Legionnaire. "We can't do anything contrary to the edict of the national Legion," bawled one World War I veteran. "Edict!" roared grizzled old Herman Wolff. "I never would have joined the damned organization if I knew I was subject to edicts. One hundred percent Americanism...