Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward...
Everybody Sad? Many of the bankers and economists saw no reason why the U.S. should not cut its spending and put its house in order. They aimed their fire at the Government's multitude of overlapping lending bureaus which had put out more than $20 billions in loans and guarantees. By & large, the bankers thought that some of the agencies, notably RFC, are no longer justified and should be curtailed or eliminated entirely...
...executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round of inflation...
...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...
...problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...