Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father entrusts his business to the direction of a son whom he has trained to follow in his footsteps. A rich, notorious, client places a-to say the least-large order. Father and Son live in the same neighborhood, on friendly terms. Is it likely that Father, however inactive in the business, will remain totally ignorant of the Son's large order during several weeks when Son is executing...
With this tall, gangling Celestial at the 'helm of the League, Count Bethlen dared, last week, to order destroyed the evidence in a case upon which the Council was expected to sit in judgment when it convenes in March. The case was that involving five carloads of machine gun parts, smuggled last December from Italy across Austria and into Hungary, where they arrived on New Year's Day. This smugglery (a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental...
...above favorite maxim of Il Duce, that "No one may claim equality with him who represents the Government of the State," was given peculiar legal force at a Cabinet meeting last week. Rapping for order, Il Duce presented a decree embodying the notorious "electoral reforms" recently proposed by the Fascist Grand Council (TIME...
...Whoever passes a whole night at a gambling table and feels no need the next day to perform at least ten good actions of the first magnitude in order to make up for that indecorous night is unworthy of the name of Fascist gentleman...
Electrician Wensley was prompted to forecast: "I can envision the day when possibly a race of 500,000 of these men will be at the beck & call of humanity. . . . We have already got an order from a gentleman who has a country estate. He wants a robot...