Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually nesting in deserted armadillo holes. It grows up to 12 ft. long. Its enormously developed fangs look like a sabre-toothed tiger...
...ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought to gain popularity by legalizing cockfighting throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather-see cut) but got only a few scattered cheers. Opposition to his methods arose in the Independence wing of the Liberal Party and before a month was out Governor...
...liberal lender. If it wants to do something for the banks who have borrowed, let it release the excess collateral it has taken and reduce the interest charged on its loans." Appealed to on the grounds of patriotism, the A. B. A. as a whole could not give so blunt an answer to the Administration but it made clear its way of thinking. Col. Leonard Ayres, economist vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. and chairman of A. B. A.'s Economic Policy Commission, reported: "Your commission views with apprehension the propaganda . . which brings pressure upon bankers to adopt ultra...
Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
...times," he confessed. "It is getting so I don't recognize it any more. We may get somewhere-I hope we do-but I'm no bleating optimist any more!" "We Cannot Participate!" With the chief Continental delegates mostly back on the Continent (where Germany's blunt Dr. Hjalmar Schacht said last week that the motto of future conferences ought to be "No More Chatter!") a real issue developed in London between the Mother Country and her Dominions...