Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Gerardo Machado drew a deep, relieved breath and, like a contemplative barman picking up the chairs after a routine saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become...
...purlieus of brokerage houses last week an alert ear might have heard these things whispered: 1) Irving Trust Co. would shortly absorb $191,000,000-in-deposits Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co.; 2) Chatham Phenix was heavily involved in frozen real estate loans; 3) Chatham Phenix had substantial losses through an investment in Empire State Building; 4) The assets of Chatham Phenix were depleted through the sale of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the bank's securities affiliate (TIME...
...made a million buying, developing and reselling oil lands. Independent, working mostly alone he continued on this line until 1926 when he consolidated seven small companies into Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. The company grew and prospered apace. Fleets of tankers roamed the seas carrying the name Sinclair. This alert, grinning, hard-headed man's influence was felt in Moscow, Lisbon, Africa, while his company became integrated, rivalled some Standard Oil units...
Neither Aviator Hall nor The Crusaders advocate drinking, but TIME'S headline writer indicated they do. Let alert TIME Editors give him a thoroughgoing reprimand...
...star witness for the defense was Alfredeta Forde, 93, grandmother of Constance May, an oldtime actress. Carried into court on a chair last week, this ancient dame, alert of eye, answered questions with the dramatic articulation of the 1860 stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed...