Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever difficult problems are before Congress the President is apt to call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
...chorus but itching John Rorke was responsible. The chance had been too good, the moment too irresistibly apt, for his British sense of humor. Within 30 seconds every telephone line into the modernistic, ship-shaped B. B. C. Building was jammed with the furious complaints of British radio listeners who had never before heard "Mrs. Simpson'' uttered on the air. The Duke of Windsor in his B. B. C. abdication broadcast called her simply "the woman I love." Almost instantaneously last week a B. B. C. technician had cut the broadcast, but just too late...
...Hare McCormick, had a long session on Spain with Mussolini. Crisply he said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until that has been accomplished, that Spain is potentially much more apt to give rise to a general European war this year than was Ethiopia last year. "You make me impatient when you talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk as if it existed or could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production...
When Mr. Roosevelt called tramp money hot money, his felicity of expression deserted him for once, yet at the same time he gave a graphic description of a type of money that is not only hot, but very apt to burn the fingers of American creditors. Tramp money will not stay put; it is a form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from...
...March 10, 1917 in Manhattan that Exile-Editor Leon Trotsky came out with this greatest of all Communist exposures of chewing gum, five days before the abdication of Nicholas II. Last week it was just as apt as it had been 20 years ago. And Leon Trotsky was once more a newly-landed exile in America, only this time he was in Mexico. After the Norwegian Government got tired of having him around (TIME, Dec. 28), put hin aboard a Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist...