Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness in many occasions of your soldiers' deeds in San Domingo. In less than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these politicians resulting from your influence. In consequence, a revolution starts, and then you call...
Said J. Dalmus Steele, Harlem's defeated candidate for Grand Exalted Ruler: "I was quadruple crossed. My future in Elkdom is practically blighted and my faith in the order is virtually under- mined...
...confused with Author Donald Ogden Stewart (Parody Outline of History, Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad, etc.) *Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. ?Mayor Walker was in Europe...
...Works at Eddystone, Pa. It was labeled the "Prosperity Special" and consisted of 20 monster locomotives, each with ten driving wheels as high as a man's head. Smaller locomotives pulled and pushed it across the continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business...
During the first half of this year the mail order and chain store companies (except Montgomery, Ward) did more business than during the prosperous first half of 1926. The comparative sales of 21 important ones in thousands of dollars (three zeros are to be added after each figure...