Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately . . . that type of executive is a rarity...
...within a few hours! "I Can Tell You That the Nazi Government spent huge sums to further their espionage in this country. . . ." U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy, in charge of the spy prosecutions in Manhattan, feared that the articles might help his quarry defend themselves. He sought a court order to restrain Publisher Stern from printing the stories before the trials. Said he: "He [Turrou] obtained this information while in the employ of the United States. He doesn't own it. He has it in his care, but he hasn't the right to sell...
...them, was started almost three years ago by Farmer Frank Wilson and his neighbor, E. C. Stieg. Promoters Wilson, Stieg and their neighbors borrowed $2,000,000 for their cooperative from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. What Governor Murphy called the "beginning of a new social order" for The Thumb, which will eventually own 1,300 miles of REA lines, was also a milestone for REA, the most extensive and expensive project it had yet promoted...
Commonweal's reversal last week called attention to a widening split among Catholics over Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World...
From figures supplied by leading U. S. booksellers, last month's nationwide best-sellers were, in order of sales...