Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that he is also ambitious merely adds to his difficulties. He has yet to face the question of whether he can preserve order in his State without 1) putting Labor in a position where it will inevitably lose its strike or 2) using the power of the State to shut the steel mills at other times than when it can be excused by the necessity of preventing bloodshed...
...brought Mr. Eden flying back from Geneva ahead of time in order to give him new instructions...
...everyone in Whitehall knows, Sir John owes his presence in the Government not to any general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic...
...Russians who have rendered such supreme services to the Soviet Government as to win its highest decorations, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star, received their beribboned medals from the Soviet Central Executive Committee last week. What had these heroes done? Who were they? As to nine of the ten, Moscow correspondents could find out absolutely nothing, not even where they live or what may be their jobs. The only hero definitely spotted was Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky, and everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years ago the Secret Police of Leningrad were...
...favorite stars were Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, William Powell, Wallace Beery, George Arliss and Myrna Loy, in that order. Women's favorites were Shirley Temple, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Greta Garbo. More surprising was the survey's answer to the question about the double feature, long a thorn in the side of the industry which thinks the public likes...