Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed rule, two-thirds of the Senate could limit debate on any motion or measure. Southern Senators, well knowing that this would spike their guns in the civil rights fight, were set to filibuster the anti-filibuster rule to death, and Harry Truman knew it when he gave his order to Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...House side, the show of the week was in Sol Bloom's Foreign Affairs Committee. With a black thimble on his right index finger, Chairman Bloom clicked & clacked for order while Henry
Anna Louise Strong, longtime devoted follower of the U.S.S.R., arrived at La Guardia Airport last week all bundled up in a heavy fur coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause...
...Italy, similar intentions were flaunted last week by Palmiro Togliatti: "As to the hypothesis that the Russian army would pursue on our territory an aggressor, I think that Italian people....would have the evident duty to aid in the most efficient way the Soviet army, in order to give that aggressor the lesson he deserves" In Britain, Communist Boss Harry Pollitt threatened sabotage in case of war with the Soviet Union...
...high-ranking official explained what the government was afraid of: "The Communists know we are caught in a vicious circle. To save India from disorder and Communism we need to raise living standards. To raise living standards we need order. So it goes, round and round...