Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...most American eyes-and to many eyes abroad-the U.S. itself had begun to seem that necessary and hopeful "island of order" in a disorderly, war-littered and distracted world...
...roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln, had known how to mollify...
Meantime, olive-skinned Andrea Perez, 23, and tar-skinned Sylvester Davis Jr., 27, who are members of the same Catholic parish, now could (under court order) get the marriage license which had been denied them in Los Angeles more than 14 months...
Coach Lamar also revealed that by next week he intends to cut Freshman grid workouts to an hour and a half daily in order to give his squad members ample time at their courses...