Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, often disturbed by low-flying airplanes-even in his dreams (TIME, June 13)-signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...searched. More than 1,000 Jews were arrested, often for trivial reasons. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps. Long lines formed at the U. S. and British consulates for visas. By week's end the scourge of anti-Semitism was applied to all Germany by secret-police order...
Challenging Gargantua in order to test his theory. Pundit Tunney continued: "Unfortunately, I am no longer in fighting shape. However, I would like to take up the offer [said to have been made by Ringling Bros.] for any one of a dozen third-rate heavyweights I know...
...York jewelry store named L. & C. Mayers Co. to "cease & desist" calling itself a wholesaler when most of its trade was done retail at non-wholesale prices-with people who were misled into thinking they were getting a bargain. Last week the Second Circuit Court upheld the 1935 FTC order. Immediately the National Retail Furniture Association started a drive to eliminate "gyp-wholesaling" in furniture. Perfectly legal, of course, remains the business of genuine wholesalers who occasionally retail goods at wholesale prices...