Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid all equipment & pumping costs. But last week, grumbling of "holdups," "ransom" and "bloodmoney," The Century of Progress offered City Council $25,000 for its $268,132 claim...
General Pozas has already done yeoman service in restoring order in Barcelona and trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
While "Marxist-held Spain is living without God" the Rightist regions enjoy "the tranquillity of internal order under the protection of a real authority. . . . Divine Worship is celebrated profusely and new manifestations of Christian life abound and flourish...
...their country by overcoming all difficulties. These operations are intended only to persuade China to reconsider her course and thereby re-establish the peace of East Asia. It is to be hoped that all people of Japan, in view of the situation, will unite in unswerving devotion in order to obtain this object...
...often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city's 619,000 hale pupils. To the Carpenter Elementary School on Chicago's West Side it brought destruction...