Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey moved into the Victorian-looking mayor's office and started to rattle the stained-glass windows. He gave his cops a single order-close down or else, Minneapolis closed down overnight, even to the slot machines at American Legion hall. He pushed through a city FEPC which made it a misdemeanor ($100 or 90 days) to discriminate in employment. He warned management that he would not use police to break up picket lines. When the labor bosses who had helped put him in office protested his selection of a police chief, Humphrey told them flatly...
...Council reconvened for its 397th meeting, to consider the war in Indonesia. In the week since the Council's last Paris session, the Dutch had made every effort to make the world forget the war and concentrate on Indonesia's future. Twelve days after the Security Council ordered him to, the Dutch commander in Indonesia, Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate...
Forty-six men are eligible for the posts, Amory Houghton Jr. '50 announced last night. These include the special Nominating Committee' those men nominated by the Committee; and a third group who handed in petitions with 25 signatures in order to have their names placed on the ballot...
Forty-six names have been placed on the ballot, Houghton revealed. These include the special Nominating Committee, made up of representatives from the eight Houses; those men nominated by the Nominating Committee; and an additional group who handed in petitions with 25 signatures in order to be eligible for the ballot...
...mailed out to members of the Class of '49, Houghton said. Those who will vote by mail include commuters, men already graduated, and non-resident, non-graduate members of the Class of '49. These votes must reach the Council's Phillips Brooks House office by 6 p.m. today in order to be valid, Houghton explained...