Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to disobey the strike order?" correspondents questioned...
...Government offices operated without a hitch. The factories opened and the workers, except in a very few instances, went to work. For example, of the nearly 20,000 Paris subway workers, only 200 failed to report for duty. At 8 a.m. the powerful Subway Workers Union revoked its strike order and by noon Paris was doing business as usual...
...Typical Yugoslav election is now cynically described as one in which the "opposition gets the votes, but the Government the seats in Parliament" But the well-disciplined, obedient Army, best in the Balkans, its mettle proved time " again in the World War, can be counted on to keep internal order for Paul...
...several other customers, wound up on the floor. Somehow a Miss Lucille Iorio had landed on the floor too, and Mr. Jones proceeded to bite her calf. The bartender then went into action and by the time the police arrived to take Mr. Jones to a psychiatric ward, order prevailed. Having no photograph of the man biting the girl, the Telegram set Artist Greene to drawing the scene. Publisher Howard likes such cartoons and what he likes, millions like. Result may be to bring artists back to the role of journalist which they once played so brilliantly and to give...
Henry Ford, who was once sued for $1,000,000 because of his anti-Semitic utterances, insisted that his acceptance of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle* "does not . . . involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism." To prove it, he authorized a warmly pro-Jewish statement. Excerpts: "I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. . . . Because of their special adaptability . . . [the Jews] would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this, when...