Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives the foreign press interviews thrice weekly, called the U.S. action "unbelievably abrupt," admitted that it was "highly susceptible of being interpreted as having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude a new treaty based on Japan's "new order in East Asia." Later, it was magnanimously said that the U.S. would not, after all, have to recognize the "new order." Characteristic newspaper comment came from Tokyo's Nichi Nichi: "It defies comprehension...
...Woodward horses won their owner-breeder $229,000 ($137,500 on U. S. tracks and $91,500 abroad), world's-record winnings that year, outstripping the winnings of the fabulous stables of Lord Astor, the Earl of Derby and the Aga Khan (in that order). And in the following year, Woodward-owned horses took first place in four of the nine English stakes in which they started and earned more money ($104,365) than any U. S. stable had ever won in England in one year. Last week on the eve of the opening of Saratoga, the Belair Stud, with...
...signs designated the groups represented in the Alliance, including the two U. S. Negro bodies, National Baptist Convention and National Baptist Convention of America.* They were meant simply to make it easy for the Baptists to find their friends. But down came the signs, at the order of Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, goat-bearded British secretary of the Alliance, who said crisply, "Don't let's have any more nonsense about color." Not quite satisfied, a Negro editor from Nashville sounded the brass for the election of a "consecrated, learned, experienced black minister" as president of the Alliance...
Francis of Assisi, simplest and kindliest of saints, lived in an age when Christendom sent army after army to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel. Burning to convert, rather than slaughter, the paynim, St. Francis took Palestine as a province of his order, before he or his followers ever laid eyes on it. When he did arrive there in 1219, the little saint settled Franciscans in some of the Holy Land's holy places. In 1333, by treaty with the Sultan, and with papal approval, Franciscans were awarded permanent "Custody of the Holy Land"-i.e., care...
...Tientsin and Datzching! British Government should know for the new orders and old order. Are you weaking up from your blinding times...