Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...
...detective forces!" The voters also did their best, in Stalin's district they wrote slogans like HURRAH FOR COMRADE STALIN! on their ballot envelopes, and elsewhere only a few such extremists as those in Uzbekistan went so far as to murder their wives or strip them naked in order to save them from contamination in the new rite of universal suffrage...
...Print order for the U. S. Rising Tide, at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., big Chicago printers, jumped last week from 500,000 to 800,000. Already the magazine had been snapped up wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...quasi-judicial body, the ICC is accustomed to ponder its decisions long and earnestly. But established practice before any commission allows a petitioner to request an immediate emergency order after presentation of ample evidence pending a final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...