Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of New York . . . because I could get no assistance from Washington, I was compelled to create State deficits-to put the State treasury into the 'red'-in order to feed the destitute and give work to the unemployed...
Defending Leftist militiamen under General Jose Miaja retreated steadily but in good order, inflicting severe losses on the attackers. The Rightists, attacking in mass infantry assaults, were estimated by the Associated Press to have lost 10,000 men. The Leftists, following strictly defensive tactics, lost...
...understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them to a new organization, Educational Ballets Ltd., in order to escape his creditors...
...which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...
Guinea Pigs's authors devote a whole chapter to Putting Our Minds In Order. For University School is distinguished from other progressive schools chiefly by a unique mathematics course, most popular course in the school and required for all juniors and seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every...