Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservatives lukewarm or cold to Geneva. Instead Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin turned the straw votes into Conservative ballots by casting handsome young Anthony Eden spectacularly in the role of the League's Galahad, defender of Ethiopia, had the late King George V dissolve Parliament and order an election at exactly the psychological moment (TIME. Nov. 25, 1935, et ante). With the huge Conservative majority then won, Britain's present Conservative Cabinet is carrying on today under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who is colder to Geneva than even Mr. Baldwin was. Recently he dropped the League of Nations...
Last spring 74-year-old William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two months ago the registration statement by which Mr. Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn. Recently, however, Publisher Hearst unburdened himself of four of his newspapers, and last week he succeeded in realizing a little something...
Brash old George Bernard Shaw, who coined the word "Bardolatry," has never denied that he is a better playwright than Shakespeare. For Shakespeare's Cymbeline he has long had particular contempt, has called it "stagy trash of the lowest melodramatic order." Last week London play-goers had a chance to see an allegedly improved Cymbeline, by Shakespeare & Shaw...
...tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical order follow the escape line by easy stages to the surface...
...every way possible to at least ameliorate the frightful conditions surrounding the hospitalization of patients. My efforts, I believe, have been somewhat successful. The ratio of patients to beds used to be 1.7. It is now 1.2. But, in spite of this, much remains to be done in order to remedy a situation which undoubtedly has no parallel in the medical annals of America...