Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apostolic of Iceland, now burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...
...dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining years, if his press has not. A recent edict of "advice to reporters and editors" said: "Be courteous and considerate. Make newspapers and newspapermen popular...
Hard hit by the edict was M. Muchado Osborne, who threw up the sponge last night in eminently respectable 14 Plympton Street. Only other character available for comment after the axe had fallen was Henry S. Middendorf '45, of Baltimore and Eliot House. Said he, "No comment...
...whistling fury, beat around the doors of the White House, whipped in & out of WPB, OWI, OPA and many another Federal agency, chilled the neck of every power-wielding office holder. Prominent Democrats rode the crest of it, outdoing Republicans in bureau-baiting and defiance of Government-by-executive-edict...
...making it unnecessary for war industries to hire more workers; 2) forcing consumer industries to fire employes no longer needed under a longer work week. The order reversed the peacetime Government labor formula of spreading the work and hiring as many as possible, instituted instead a wartime edict of hiring few and dispensing with as many as possible...