Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands a production-&-price control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile mills. But so far. Franklin Roosevelt has resisted every pressure for subsidizing labor through industry...
...into a row over the right to represent employes of Union Premier Food Stores Inc. NLRB called an election to determine the workers' preference. A. F. of L. refused to participate, picketed the stores, demanded that Judge Dickinson dismiss the company's petition for a restraining order. Instead, Judge Dickinson found that the Wagner Act permitted him to do, in NLRB's interest, what the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbade: order the pickets to disperse...
...such visitors from violence. To demonstrate Jersey City's "Americanism," Boss Hague led a parade of 16,000 National Guardsmen, A. F. of L. Unionists, war veterans and loyal Hague-sters to Journal Square, mounted a reviewing stand with Colonel Hugh A. Kelly of the Veterans' Law & Order Committee, Daniel C. Casey, his director of public safety, and Mrs. Mary Teresa...
...Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal and try to clamber up Shameen's steep concrete sides to safety...
...first move to overcome lagging domestic production and zoom the Royal Air Force up to par with Germany's air fighting strength, Britain's Air Ministry last week ordered from two U. S. concerns 400 planes, valued at $25,000,000. One was the largest foreign aircraft order ever placed with a U. S. firm...