Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
Four years ago, Pan American-Grace Airways had its first ,big South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
When Isaac Hecker, member of a German Protestant family which grew rich in Manhattan in the grain and baking business (Hecker's Rolled Oats), was converted to Catholicism and became a priest in 1849, there was no indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...
...Winchester went last year the superior general of the order, Very Rev. John B. Harney. He was not satisfied that his priests were getting out among the 175,000 people (375 of whom are Catholics) who inhabit their parish of 13 counties. Father Harney returned to Manhattan. A lay friend suggested that a trailer-chapel, such as many a minister now employs in rural districts, might be helpful. The friend supplied $5,200 for a trailer, which was specially built, named St. Lucy,- and turned over to two young priests, Rev. James F. Cunningham and Rev. Thomas M. Halloran...
...versatile instrument, put on the market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant where mechanical music encroaches upon musicians' jobs, stepped in with an order that an orchestra of at least four men must be employed wherever a Hammond is played...