Word: await
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rural Guard, canter off to the hills with arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From band to band went couriers, reporting arms shipments and the Government's moves. Now leaderless, the bands "await the arrival of a supreme leader." Inevitable spawn of Machado's Terror, they knew that if they tried to live quietly in their homes, they might soon be jailed or dead. To stamp them out President Machado last week sent to Santa Clara his favorite strong-arm man, notorious...
...Treasury Woodin went through the banking crisis, the gold embargo and the inflation excitement with the help of able Republicans left behind by Herbert Hoover. At his right hand was Arthur Atwood Ballantine as Undersecretary and at his left James Henderson Douglas as Assistant Secretary. Francis Gloyd Await acted temporarily as Comptroller of the Currency. David Burnet continues as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Walter Orr Woods as Treasurer of the U. S. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board lay low until his successor could be found...
...some such agreement might come a return to a reduced gold standard by both countries. The experts later discussed their findings with President & Premier, who then announced in a joint statement that they had "reviewed the substance of their discussions with deep satisfaction," that definite agreements must await the World Conference itself...
...York Attorney; Minister to Holland, William Gorham Rice, New York State Civil Service Commissioner and onetime private secretary to Grover Cleveland; Minister to Canada, Warren Delano Robbins, the President's first cousin and the Department of State's Chief of Protocol. Still being kept wide open to await developments was the Ambassadorship to Germany...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Await admitted that his office had known about Harriman irregularities as long ago as July 23 but that prosecutions were delayed in the hope of salvaging deposits. The Treasury hesitated ("in the public interest") to act lest it disturb the already critical banking situation...