Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the A. M. A. held its annual convention in St. Louis, a group of Negro A. M. A. members complained to Secretary Olin West against Southern exclusion, and the col. tag. Later, in Chicago, Dr. West caustically suggested that N. M. A. put their own house in order before criticizing the A. M. A. Flashing a sheaf of documents, he informed an astonished N. M. A. delegation that the president-elect of the Negro National Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach of Flint, Mich., had been fined by a Michigan Federal district court in 1928 'for selling twelve...
...hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...Germany single issues were frequently banned from the newsstands. Last May Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler signed an order banning all future issues of TIME from Germany (TIME, May 29). The week before, TIME had carried Herr Himmler's picture on its cover, had chronicled his career. Newsstand circulation of the magazine amounted to about 75 copies...
...Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which he has been a guest in order to marry her and help her change her life, M. Delaroch assumes a more active role. He blocks the Carey passports, lures Bill into the jungle, tries to teach Manon the virtues of passivity. But Manon, who has taken a good look at Bill, knows what she wants...
...profits ranging from 27% to 200% over the first six months of 1938. Boeing, still charging off development expense on its big four-motored jobs, showed a net loss of $183,550. Martin, slowed up in production while it tooled its factory for a 215-plane French bomber order, netted $967,624 (31.7% under 1938's first half) but looked forward to a whopping second half in 1939 as production got under...