Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asheville conference was held just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted...
Surveying triumphantly the Parliamentary order thus restored, President Smith was about to descend from the balcony when a Welsh Communist, Arthur Horner, onetime amateur lightweight boxing champion of South Wales, rushed up the aisle belligerently shouting, "I'm in on this fight...
...Horner!" roared the President, then leaped down six balcony steps, stunned Communist Horner with the impact of heavy boots, did not quite kill him, restored complete order...
...inscription was finally omitted by order of Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University (TIME, July 9), who caused to be erected first a stone balustrade without inscription which was smashed by his own students, and second an equally inscriptionless plaster of Paris balustrade...
John D. Clark, president of Midwest Refining Co. of Denver, Col., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, vice president of Pan-American Eastern Petroleum Co., announced that he would desert his business to take a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in law and economic research in order to fit himself for a permanent position in the profession of teaching...