Word: order
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...agree upon a definition of military objectives. Mincing few words, he demanded "as a right" to be granted a belligerent status because: 1) he possesses more territory than his enemy; 2) he maintains a sovereign government; 3) he has an army and air force organized to guarantee order. Charging that vessels have taken contraband munitions into Leftist Spain with Non-Intervention Committee observers on board, General Franco complained that Rightist Spain is now denied the right of search on the high seas, that she is hampered by a list of contraband imposed by the Committee. He complained also that only...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
Arthur Murray had other things besides a new dance to think of. Although he has done a mail-order business since 1921, with 750,000 pupils, neither he nor any other top-notch teacher had ever tapped the dancing masses by means of a book. This week he proposed to do that very thing, with How To Become a Good Dancer, result of three years of collaboration between him and his publishers.* Most notable novelty in Teacher Murray's book is its eight cut-outs-The Murray Magic Footprints. Put these on the floor according to diagrams...
...Windsor, Myrna Loy, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Germany, James Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Elizabeth Arden and Ina Claire are not ashamed of having gone in the front way. Altogether the school handles 3,000 pupils a day. As result of a tie-up with Fleischmann's yeast (a mail order course for 81 yeast labels), Arthur Murray has acquired 350,000 correspondence students since last March. House organ of Murray's, edited by his wife, is called the Murray-Go-Round...
...California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...