Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophie Christenson's operators prepared to comply, and to duplicate the order for their schooner Charles R. Wilson, U. S. Coast Guardsmen said four cutters were watching Japanese and U. S. fishermen, apparently did not find Japanese encroaching. Snapped a Coast Guardsman, also cherishing God-given instinct: "If there's any shooting to be done...
Most observers agree that the minority Sudetens have a legitimate grievance. In 1920 the horseshoe mountainous strip was deliberately added to the new fish-shaped State by the Allied peacemakers by the Treaty of Saint-Germain, in order to set up a natural fortification barrier against Germany. This gave the new Czechoslovak State a population 22% German. The Sudetens lost their German and Austrian markets. Some Sudeten factories shut down, others were taken over by Czechs. Although the Sudetens form almost 100% blocs in some sections, Czech police and local officials were appointed to administer their affairs. Czech workers gradually...
...Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled as loudly as the Opposition in attacking the Air Ministry while it was under the ousted Viscount Swinton, Mr. Chamberlain last week had to threaten Conservative members with ostracism at election time in order to insure himself of a comfortable margin...
First act of the new Cabinet was to order more troops to China. Soldiers left Japan last week in the largest number since the initial shipments in September. Army officers roamed the streets commandeering commercial trucks. One U. S. automobile branch agency was given a rush order for 1,800 machines. Next step observers last week believed imminent was the complete application of the National Mobilization Act, which would place the nation on full wartime footing, give the army virtual control over industry and all phases of national life...
...suggested that men who must know individual grades early, in order to make plans about Summer School, or for some other reason, should give a telegraph address to the secretary of their assistant Dean in University 4, before leaving Cambridge...