Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pretty Big Order." In 1930 Father Koczan returned to Szombathely after four years' service with Hungarian immigrants in Ohio. First he organized a new parish. Next he built a new church, one of the city's best. The passing years brought white to his crew-cut hair, and townsfolk of Szombathely placed their faith in him. The day after Cardinal Mindszenty was locked up, the Communist iron claw reached out for Father Koczan...
Summoned to Szombathely Communist headquarters, he was told of Mindszenty's arrest. Now, all priests would have to declare themselves for "democracy," i.e., Communism. Was he prepared to cooperate? "That's a pretty big order," Koczan replied. "I'll have to think it over...
Last week, with his purge over, President Ashby felt that his college was finally getting back to normalcy. "If there's one thing this college needs," he said, "it's a little more discipline." Sighed a professor who had survived the purge: "We need a little law & order, but it's too bad it had to be Ashby...
...book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
Author Elias, like most of Dreiser's critics, makes much of his determination to gain wealth in order to achieve a respectable life. But this record makes it clear that by respectability Dreiser meant simply a freedom from cruel underworld jokes, or the appalling misrepresentation of his simplest actions. When he wrote of poverty he was not writing of ordinary working-class life, but of something highly specialized existing within it, with its own codes and manners, disciplines, hardships and horrors...