Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1947, just before taking off to see his dying mother in Independence, President Truman signed an important piece of legislation at Washington's National Airport. It was the National Security Act which had just been passed by Congress and which was designed to bring order and teamwork to the squabbling military establishment...
Fine Opportunity. Nevertheless, Murray's action came as a shock to Wolchok and Altman, who had hoped for aid and sympathy from Murray, not liquidation. Murray's order did not dissolve Wolchok's union; Sam would be allowed to hang on to as many of his members as he could. But in the face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers...
Frenchmen last week were staring at the floor. A new law, aimed at bringing order and equity out of the chaos of French rentals, had just proclaimed that after Jan. 1 French floor space would be classified as "real," "useful" and "corrected." The law was drafted with clarity, system and thoroughness, qualities for which the French are famed. Also, the law was nuttier than an Alsatian fruit cake...
Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
...Granddad. In Magazine, Ark., John Park Cravens withdrew his complaint that he had never received his order of four quarts of whiskey, advertised at $3.20, when he learned that the ad was 48 years...