Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sent home. This kind of law Governor McNutt maintained for at least two years in Sullivan County, Ind. and for some six to eight months in Terre Haute. Under this, a major of militia had power superior to all local authorities and courts; he could and did order men to be held for various alleged offenses, including street corner speaking, subject, not to civil law, but to a military court...
Actually, I suspended no civil processes in any instance. The courts remained open and functioned in a normal way. Troops were sent to Sullivan and Vigo counties as a symbol of the authority of the State and its determination to preserve order. Over a period of time there was a progressive reduction of the number of troops until finally we had only one squad on duty, although martial law technically was continued...
...youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset "all the unfavorable publicity that marriage is getting...
...Early in July, the French Government stepped into the copper market with an order for 50,000 tons, insisted that 29,000 tons of it be shipped immediately from U. S. stocks. This first installment was better than half of total domestic copper deliveries for any month this year. Fearing a runaway sellers' market, domestic buyers in the first three weeks of July bought over 160,000 tons, more than they had ordered in any single month since the flush days of October 1936 before President Roosevelt denounced high copper prices. This bid up the domestic price of copper...
Back smacked a "spokesman" for Father Coughlin: "So free speech must be consigned to the wastebasket-all America must suffer-in order to muzzle Father Coughlin...