Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration to sell arms to the Federal government of Mexico and continue the embargo on all shipments to the rebels. In the case of a country chronically torn by civil war, the populace is the eventual loser thru the wholesale destruction of property and the gain to law and order through a speedy settling of the strife is certainly of primary importance to the United States as well, with its large commercial interest in danger...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
Another significant development of last week was King Alfonso's flat refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...
Peter spent his first year trying to be manager of all the teams there were, but in short order he left each competition. He found that you worked so hard to become a manager that there was no time left to do nothing in. And if you were going to meet all the best people, which was Peter's heart's desire, you had to spend most of your time doing nothing for that was what they...
...that the culmination of 20 years of experience and work in photography, lighting, acting, and all the other component parts of good moving pictures, should have to be subordinated to poor directing and a worse scenario as they are in "Stark Mad", the current attraction at the Metropolitan, in order that we may hear as well...