Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...village Soviets of their district but absolutely unable to appraise the political standing of these presidents- they are all unknown to them." In these circumstances, according to the Soviet press, it has been necessary for some local Communist officials to consult, even compromise with the village priest. "In order not to lose the votes of believers," reported Komsomolskaya Pravda with disapproval, "local Communists are often trying to please them, instead of struggling against their influence with the masses...
...conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which Soviet Leaders were still set as a matter of prestige. To help get enough pencils for the election, the State last week was having Soviet pupils and Soviet teachers in numerous schools do their writing and arithmetic entirely without...
...caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sacret Heart Order...
...disappoint some religious radicals. Its interpretation of Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says, "Is it too fanciful to suggest that ... we have a picture of an ordered society in which men will no longer grasp for themselves, and trample on each other in their competition for food. . . ." But find abundance in production, distribution and obedience "to the bountiful Father." To Father Noel, the most dangerous corruption of the Christian faith lies in pietism, "the religion taught as Christianity...
During the 1937 season Stengel risked becoming a forgotten man by keeping entirely out of baseball in order to force the Brooklyn directors to pay him the $15,000 called for during the remaining year of his unexpired contract. This incident was hardly noteworthy in the Stengel career...