Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time Craig is pressing a suit against Irving Berlin and Warner Brothers in New York City. This case is being handled by Paul N. Turner, attorney for the Actors Equity League, but the first hearing has been postponed in order to allow the Warner Brothers' attorney to come to New York from California...
...that the Papacy is a temporal State as well as a heavenly kingdom, such mundane things as state receptions and banquets are in order at the Vatican. Last week Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, beetle-browed secretary of the Papal State, signalized the new era with his first diplomatic luncheon. Gathered in stately Vestments Hall were 60 ambassadors and ministers in full dress, wearing swords and decorations. Present too were white-ruffled, silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu...
...Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world...
Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...
Preparations were made today for an intensive week of practice, weather permitting. The shells, already shipped previously have been put in running order under the supervision of Edgar Dennison, rigger, and will probably taste the water of the Thames in the first workout tomorrow morning...