Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post Office grey...
...speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...force separation of production and distribution from exhibition. As he promised when he took office in March, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold carefully explained his aims. Excerpt: "It is the belief of the Department of Justice that certain rearrangements must be made in the moving-picture industry in order to maintain competitive conditions in the future. Those rearrangements require a more constructive effort than mere prosecution for past practices. . . . Under this policy a lawsuit should be considered as the beginning of co-operation between the courts, the legislature, the Department of Justice and the industry to achieve a common...
...must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...
...reported by leading booksellers throughout the country, July's best-sellers were, in order of sales: THE YEARLING-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-Scribner...