Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff: "If I am ever kidnapped and I order you not to shoot and you obey my order, you won't be here next day. No matter what I tell you, you start shooting." Whalen telephoned the watch tower guards to expect trouble. When the convicts, taking Warden Larkin and the guards with them, reached the prison yard...
This coming week in Denver, Bill Green, by now 64, somewhat plumper, a deal more amiable, will gavel to order his 13th annual A. F. of L. convention. There in the big grey municipal auditorium some 600 accredited delegates and a host of other labormen will assemble in what is still Labor's only national congress. The principal item on the agenda is the man who saved Bill Green from innocuous obscurity, and day after day, in the redundant, turgid oratory so dear to old-time labor leaders, John L. Lewis will be damned and double-damned...
...done, turned over their sombre data to a Commission on Human Relations subsequently set up by the Progressive Education Association and financed by the Rockefeller General Education Board, to provide for Youth, parents and teachers the facts of modern life that they needed to solve contemporary problems. This sizable order was undertaken by a group of educators, writers and scientists who prepared a series of nine books with such titles as Society & Family Living, Do Adolescents Need Parents?, Literature & Human Relations and last spring the commission began sending six of the nine to 100 U. S. high schools and colleges...
...democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (from which he completely withdrew in 1936 when he thought the Chamber had become...
...Paris, Rochas sells models both to individuals, retail, and to stores, "wholesale" for copying. In Manhattan he will sell retail only, at prices from $300 up, higher than any other U. S. dressmaker. All dresses will be made on order, all designs created in Paris. The collection shown this week includes about 100 dresses and will not be shown to Rochas' private customers in Paris until October. Rochas' clothes, generally simple and neat, often have vigorous color combinations. Rochas makes no hats, but does produce three brands of perfume: Audace, Ave. Matignon and Air Jeune...