Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh. Thomas and James are his first names, reversing the order of the names of his embarrassing colleague in the Senate, James Thomas Heflin. Another distinction between these two-who are the Senate's most complete opposites except for the label on their politics-is that Senator Walsh, from rocky Montana, is the outstanding Roman Catholic Senator, while, as everyone knows, Senator Heflin from swampy Alabama mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...guest of the Rockefeller Institute was famed Russian cancer expert Dr. Boris Sokolov, now a professor at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Said he: "Even Death should be thought of as a disease and not as something which is inevitable. Scientific and rational struggle against Death is the order of the day for the up-to-date biologist and doctor...
...member of the German firing squad definitely refuses to level his rifle at Nurse Cavell and he is shot on the spot. The rest line up and at the order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...
...remote Witwaters Rand, South Africa, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police was so stirred by despatches from London that he issued an order banning Dawn, although the film had not yet had its first public showing in England. During the week the London County Council prevented what had been billed as: "Monster First Showing Of Dawn Before 10,000 Representative Citizens At Albert Hall...
Extension changes in the organization of the Social Service work are under consideration by the committee, and will be announced shortly. The ultimate aim of the committee in proposing a revision of the existing order of things McTurnan explained, is to bring men into closer contact with the Phillips Brooks House organization, also with the University, and to stimulate interest within the College in welfare work...