Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irishman, one about a Negro and a Negress (Rufus and Narcissa), one about a Negro preacher with a fondness for long words, one about a fish too big to be true, one about a man who said that a church service "beat the devil." He also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music in Government offices and workshops the coming year." He concluded his address with the following poetical quotation from Nancy Byrd Turner...
...Review a Fleet. When Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding reviewed the Fleet, said Mr. Kent, "silk-hatted and frock-coated [they] stood rigidly on the bridges of their boats from the moment the first gun was fired until the last ship had passed. . . . Full dress is the order of the day. It isn't a matter of taste-it's orders. And presence of the President on the bridge is essential to the review...
Then last week, came orders from Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent that Mr. Carroll should be removed from hospital to penitentiary, should change from patient to prisoner. While his wife protested against the "inhumanity" to the prisoner, while his brother described the removal order as coming with "brutal suddenness," Mr. Carroll was taken to Atlanta, where an ambulance met his train at the station and took him to the prison...
When representatives of the five Powers and six smaller nations comprising the Council of the League of Nations* assembled at Geneva last week for their regular quarterly meeting, they found that a document pregnant with international discord had been filed with the League by order of President-Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania...
...been opposed to his views. When he was named for the Chair of Apologetics, the Board of Directors fought with the Board of Trustees over the appointment. That has been the scandal of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. The General Assembly a year ago would not order the appointment. Three weeks ago at San Francisco the General Assembly again snubbed Dr. Machen (TIME, June...