Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief quarry of Senator Copeland's hunt was one specific "Red": Harry Bridges, the Australian-born leader of Pacific Coast longshoremen. Harry Bridges' papers are in good order but like any alien he may be deported if he advocates overthrow of the Government by force. Therefore, Senator Copeland set out to prove he was a militant member of the Communist Party. Though most labor observers believe Bridges hews close to the Communist Party line, he denies being a party member. Dr. Copeland claims, however, that Mr. Bridges is in fact a member under the name...
...Chinese troops were holding off the Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River...
...Order of the Garrison Commander of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in China...
Last week Miss Fields (alias Mrs. Archie Selinger) could well afford the fancy gown and long kid gloves in which she alighted from her limousine at Buckingham Palace. The most famed of 187 persons who had come to receive from the hand of George VI the stars, orders and ribbons awarded in the New Year's Honors (TIME, Jan. 10), she curtsied demurely while the King-Emperor pinned the rose-colored ribbon and the badge of a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...could not prove that pectin kills bacteria in the bowels and in that way stops intestinal ailments. But, being everlastingly inquisitive. Dr. Edith Haynes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a home economics student who became a bacteriologist in order to learn what happened in her pots, continued to experiment, found that sores kept sopping wet with a water solution of pectin* healed with extraordinary speed...