Word: allay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the clash occurred. These orders were implicitly obeyed. Allegations that my troops recently attacked or occupied Afdub [Jan. 20] are without foundation. "The action of the Italian Government in mobilizing troops in Italy as a precautionary measure causes me extreme regret, as it undermines confidence and fails to allay suspicions among my people...
Even the more unlikely contingencies have been thought of and prevented. The Cambridge Building Inspector, in his eagerness to deserve well of his country, has zealously surveyed the foundations to allay all fears that a hidden weakness should precipitate the President and his encourage into the cellar...
...Utah banker who since last January has served Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a special assistant. Grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a rich & pious Mormon, Governor Eccles graduated from Brigham Young College at 19, promptly went to Scotland as a missionary. As if to allay fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition...
...lastly he tried to allay fears of further excursions by the Government into banking: "Just as it is to be expected that the banks will resume their responsibility and take up the burden that the Government has assumed through its credit agencies, so I assume and expect that private business generally will be financed by the great credit resources which the present liquidity of banks makes possible. Our traditional system has been built upon this principle and the recovery of our economic life should be accomplished through the assumption of this responsibility...
...book, "Mein Kampi", has been sliced up into endless short paragraphs. These, which contain some of The Loader's most warlike statements, have been placed side by side with excerpts from Hitler's Peace Speech of October 14, 1933. Now since the latter was delivered in an effort to allay the fears of Europe that was aroused by Germany's announced intention to rearm, inconsistencies between the autobiography and the speech leap at the reader...