Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government made loans to the farmers and these loans were to be repaid after the harvest. In order to keep the price of grain from rising and falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...
...Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager to move in on Curran headquarters in Manhattan, move out Curran men and policies, Fireman King & friends were aware that the dissension was made to order for such N. M. U. enemies as A. F. of L.'s Longshoreman Joe Ryan, who yearns to regain command of eastern waterfronts. Said Fireman King: "I feel about the A. F. of L. like everybody else in this union. I say the hell with 'em." Said Joe Curran...
...votes by declaring martial law and shutting down Maytag as the strikers wished, he last week twirled around, permitted Maytag to reopen on Maytag terms and under State guard. The Governor simultaneously weaseled out of his role as a States' Rights champion (TIME, Aug. 8). He amended his order forbidding NLRB to continue its Maytag inquiry anywhere in "the military district of Iowa," allowed the hearings to reopen at Des Moines, 30-odd miles from troubled Newton...
...Officials of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S., in Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
Japanese have nominally occupied all Hopeh for eight months, its eastern quarter for nearly three years. General Lu's description of conditions behind the Japanese lines, allowing for natural partisan distortion, was the more significant because the Japanese are now apparently reducing their forces in that area in order to send reinforcements to the threatened Manchukuoan border (see col. 1). He said: "Our central Hopeh forces now control 8,000 square miles of territory-about the size of Massachusetts-sandwiched between the railways south of Peiping and Tientsin...