Word: order
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart citymen are not without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...broad, carved desk in the gloomy Palazzo Chigi lay incriminating documents, the report of an investigation which Il Duce had ordered into the affairs of one of the Fascist Government's leading fiscal advisers, the Chemical & Dye Tycoon of Northern Italy, potent Deputy Ernesto Belloni, recently Mayor of Milan, repeatedly assigned as an Italian expert at the War Debt aid Reparations conferences. Evidently the report on Signer Belloni was damning. With characteristic decision Il Duce dashed on paper an order dismissing the Dye Tycoon "from every political and public activity, indefinitely...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, "World Teacher," announced the dissolution of the Order of the Star in the East, theosophical brotherhood founded in India in 1910. He explained: "The Truth needs no disciples. It wants nothing from any man. Only a few will understand, and they need no organization...
...well may add to the Swift family net profit. By means of a new quick-freezing process, fresh meats have been put on the market in the packaged and branded form long associated only with cured meats (ham, bacon). Thus the U. S. housewife may now telephone her butcher, order Swift pork chops, lamb chops, and pork tender loins, all neatly wrapped in parchment or cellophane, trimmed, ready to cook. Soon available will be sliced calf liver and beef liver, and packaged legs and shoulder of lamb. Eventually planned are frozen beef steaks, roasts, etc. Most extraordinary of all will...
...cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into it. It will sell for $200. It was invented by James V. Martin of Martin Aeroplane Factory, Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin is looking for a Wall Street firm to finance it and for a mail order house to distribute it. It is the new "baby car." arrival of which has been for some weeks rumored (TIME, July...