Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human Hospital. As governor, Huey made Earl attorney for the Orleans Parish inheritance-tax collector-a $15,000 job he had promised to abolish in order to use the money for a tuberculosis hospital. Earl was soon earning his keep. In 1929, the legislature, infuriated by Huey's browbeating, set out to impeach him. In the midst of the excitement the Kingfish threw himself on a bed and wept. But with Earl's help, he made secret forays and counterattacks. Huey had two methods of persuasion: cash and threats. On the eve of the impeachment proceedings, 15 state...
...promised the people things they would be "able to see and feel"-veterans' bonuses, roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...
Journey into Squalor. Her work began in Philadelphia, when she was "about 18." It was then that she heard of a wealthy lady who had founded a new Catholic order. Katharine Drexel, daughter of a Morgan partner, had been troubled by the squalor of Indian life she had seen on a trip through the West. In Rome later, she begged Pope Leo XIII to do something about it. "Why don't you become a missionary yourself?" the Pope replied. Katharine Drexel did, and gathered together in the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament a group of women who devoted their...
...Xavier's 17 buildings stand surrounded by lumberyards, saloons, and a dog pound. Protected from these, on the tree-shaded campus, Mother Agatha spends her days. Last week, carpenters and cleaners were getting the campus ready for fall. But Mother Agatha had other matters on her mind. The order was building a new Navaho school, and she had gone to the order's headquarters outside Philadelphia to check up on the far-flung school system she presides over...
...many of our editorial pages," wrote tweedy, 49-year-old Editor Herbert Brucker, "are journalistic quick lunches, manned by short-order essayists . . . What ought to be incisive opinion all too often turns out to be a collection of cliches . . . Is it any wonder that editorials are read by only 49% of the men and 29% of the women...