Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
...heels of this solution came an Italian order for all other foreigners, tourist or resident, to clear out of Bolzano Province immediately. Hardest hit by this precipitate measure were about 300 Swiss, many of whom operate the resort hotels in the district...
...Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie's conferences to settle the month-old Tientsin blockade. At the first meeting between the two, Mr. Arita began by asking for an "accord of policy"-I. e., a recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however, they dispensed with interpreters (Sir Robert does not speak Japanese) and conducted the first skirmish in English...
...White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure on Japan...
...sooner had the quotation gone over the ticker than an order came selling him ten shares at 30. He quoted again two points down and his bid was snatched at 28. He continued dropping his price, but like a hungry school of fish snatching at fat grubs, sellers snatched at his bids all the way down to 14. Then, fussed at playing sucker to his own game, he traded in and out at around 15 to stabilize his market. The bears let up. Broker Sykes's face was red. The traders knew, although he didn't, that Spalding...