Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chester and Mr. Weir, they must be accused either of being unacquainted with the facts or else of trying to conceal them in order to put the best possible appearance on their own activities. At best, they are the victims of the worst fallacies of wishful thinking. If their statements are taken at face value by the people of this country, a false and dangerous sense of security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing...
...Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul in Ecuador, "Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . ." From a Los Angeles salesman, "I think someone should get out a restraining order on the President of the United States to prevent him from stopping all of these strikes...
...Joseph J. Mascuch (rhymes with "shoe"), who was formerly in the bumper business. Breeze established itself in Washington as an accepted supplier of aircraft parts to the Government (sales, 1927: $136,805; first nine months of 1938: $2,200,065). Adaptable and efficient, it succeeded also in getting an order for 12,000,000 lbs. of equipment for the stacks of the U. S. Government's Archives Building...
...long, however, did Breeze remain obscure. In March 1938 Breeze elected two other directors, representatives of a Wall Street group, headed by Securities Salesman John J. Bergen, which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...
...talking. Notable exception was Jean Giono (The Song of the World), pacifist and peasant legendmaker of the Basses-Alps, who in September 1938 organized the peasants of his province to revolt against mobilization. This time Giono wrote the gendarmerie of his village that he would not obey the mobilization order. He was clapped into jail (TIME...