Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with all its recreations to be put on the auction block-which in this case was also an execution block. If the cause of Juan Andreu Almazan was dead, it was partly because Mexico has developed...
...works, rail yards, factories on fire. They reported the Berlin Central Post Office entirely gutted. Still not yielding to popular pressure for "total" attacks on German civilians, the R. A. F. continued to concentrate its bombs on selected military targets. At the same time, the British canceled their order to pilots to bring all bombs home if the specified target could not be found. For the first time since September, the R. A. F. reminded Italy that she was vulnerable from the north by dropping big bomb loads on industrial Milan, Turin, Aosta, Verona...
...cripple as the crack, 1,620-ton destroyer Artigliere. Believing British ships near, the other Italians abandoned the Artigliere and cut for home, as the York and Ajax arrived for the kill. The Italians began to abandon ship. "A few seconds later," said a British witness, "came the order for the York to finish her off. The crew were told to abandon ship, and floats were thrown overboard for them...
...Nazi, and still in Paris. Singer Houston has been in the U. S. since 1938, is currently at Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where she performs voodoo songs by candlelight. At the Museum's opening concert she went through her routine with a pair of candles which, by order of the fire department, were enclosed in chimneys. In the darkened house Elsie Houston was something to see as she slapped a tom-tom, crooned incantations to Brazil's goddess Yemanga, to Ogum, the god of war, to Exu, the devil...
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...