Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden and for prizes...
...backed by San Francisco financiers with "ideals and traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order, which the farmers execute by blasting a dam, washing out the mining crowd in one great, glistening, gold-tinted Technicolor flood...
...years ago the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to stop selling its tires to Sears, Roebuck & Co. at net prices lower than those accorded to other purchasers-a practice which had enabled Sears to undersell its competitors. When the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act presently was passed, Goodyear abandoned the practice. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the F. T. C. order on the ground that the controversy no longer existed...
This will be the first of what is hoped to be triennial Regional Harvard Clubs Meetings, in order that delegates from Clubs that Conant cannot visit individually may hear the President and have some contact with the University...
...picture is a repetition of the old story of how law and order gradually conquered the bad lands. Lewis Stone plays his role as a corrupt judge of the old regime with great understanding, and Dennis O'Keefe as the tight-lipped federal deputy is also on the side of Virtue, but Mr. Beery's personality dominates the picture, and when he is finally and symbolically arrested, a pang of remorse sweeps over the audience...