Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends recalled that General Han Fu-chu, who did not surrender to the Japanese after he lost Tsingtao but fell back with his Chinese troops, was later executed by order of Generalissimo Chiang as a traitor, and that during the 15 months of the present war about 40 defeated Chinese commanders have been executed. In Canton, "The Birthplace of the Chinese Revolution," impassioned telegrams were received from Chungking in which Chinese President Dr. Lin Sen and Dr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "the Father of the Republic," exhorted the Cantonese to "defend your sacred soil...
Before giving in, however, Britain first had to save face-an important matter in the East-by restoring order to show that she was master of the situation. More British troops having landed, Britain finally began her reconquest of Palestine. With 3,000 soldiers standing by at nearby Gethsemane, Bethlehem and around Jerusalem, Black Watch Coldstream Guards and Royal Northumberland Fusiliers scaled the old Roman walls, marched in through the Biblical Dung and Zion Gates, began to clean up the Old City's underground labyrinths...
...Meaning of Progressive Education lies deeper, however, than questions of efficiency. For the first principle and the religion of Progressive Educators is democracy, and their biggest question: how to achieve it. On the left wing a group thinks that Progressive Education should be chiefly concerned with the social order. Opposed are those who are chiefly concerned about individual development. Recently Progressive Education's No. 1 present-day philosopher, Ohio State's gaunt Professor Boyd Henry Bode, in a book called Progressive Education at the Crossroads, declared that nothing but chaos could result from exclusive attention to children...
Tacoma's new Police Commissioner Holmes Eastwood announced that publicity given the arrest of a Texas cop-killer had helped his pal escape, handed down an order forbidding any member of his force to talk about or show records on "serious" crimes to Tacoma's two newspapers (Times, News Tribune & Sunday Ledger) and one radio news service (KMO). Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers...
Tacoma's newspapers immediately an nounced they would not recognize the "censorship," burgeoned with angry talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...