Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Welch Fusiliers have so spelled their name since the 17th Century. The spelling was officially confirmed by a British Army order in 1920, in recognition of the regiment's services during the World...
...fall to the Japanese, Japanese soldiers surrounded and blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West...
...distributing decorations to those responsible for most great American accomplishments: businessmen. Now particularly, if Napoleon was right, the U. S. needs great businessmen to combat depression and unemployment. But last week, it was France, not the U. S., which instituted a new decoration: the eight-pointed star of the Order of Commercial Merit, for doers of great business deeds...
...however complacent they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood of returning alumni in order to explain that there are other changes at Harvard besides the House system, and that they are not all to the good...
Thus died Mexico's ace aviator, founder-president of one of Mexico's biggest native-owned airlines (TIME, June 5). At Franklin Roosevelt's order, the body was returned to Mexico in one of the U. S. Army's big Boeing bombers...