Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator Wagner would withdraw it at that time. As the special session was sitting last week both Leader Barkley and slow-footed Lieutenant King had ample cause for regret...
...This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...
Even more praiseworthy is the fact that the telephone company has preserved the secret in order that future large-scale collections of representative natural expression may be made in the same way. There is no indication anywhere in the volume that it is anything but a plain, ordinary, dull telephone directory...
...selections are naturally short and shallow, which both proves that they are representative and also enables many of them to be reproduced in toto. They are arranged in order of complexity, and, incidentally, alphabetically. The first entry in the book is an example of pure straightforwardness with no imagination or enlargement...
...whose phone numbers were misprinted in the CRIMSON Telephone directory, or who were omitted, please notify the CRIMSON in writing as soon as possible in order to be included in the supplement to appear the first week of December...