Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...
...same day at 1:30 in the afternoon the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals . . . will enter in a procession in the order of seniority into the conclave, where all the rest will be performed according to custom...
...greater achievement than Robinson Crusoe, was largely filled with dull political and economic arguments, but it did introduce the first gossip column, the first society news and first advice to the lovelorn in English-language journalism. Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many a moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less for me; her Husband is sensible...
...starvation every week has recently risen to 2,000. Faced by these grim facts, a subcommittee of the League of Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs but would maintain life for an indefinite period of time, and prevent such serious deficiency diseases as scurvy...
...survey of undergraduate greed yesterday played havoe with service in House Dining Halls, as waitresses were ordered to secure a signature for every second helping and every dish not included on the menu. The white, "No Charge" slips had then to be approved by the head waitress before the order could be served...