Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Fremont's edict of military emancipation elicited almost universal acclaim throughout the North. But it alarmed the President [and] constituted a serious blow to his efforts to retain Maryland, Kentucky and other border states in the Union ... He issued an order altering Fremont's proclamation so that it should conform to and not "transcend" the act of Congress ... A storm of indignation broke out throughout the North . . . Outraged Abolitionists clamored for the impeachment of Lincoln; and Fremont supporters proposed him as Lincoln's successor...
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...
...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...