Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a report was circulated in New York that Lloyds was laying 5-to-1 on war somewhere within six months. Massed troops around Austria might mean nothing-but that territory remained the powder box of Europe. More informative than such fearful talk was an article appearing last week in the March FORTUNE on the world's armament industry. In it were detailed the companies which make war possible and the men who sell the products of those companies internationally. Prime FORTUNE facts...
Quick to rally behind the President were supporters who, from the first, have apologized for the behavior of the rest of the Press. Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Record printed a front page box headlined "O. K., MR. PRESIDENT!" The Milwaukee Journal: "President Roosevelt has accepted the newspaper code with certain remarks which reflect the bad taste left in his mouth after months and months of unjustifiable delay. The delay and the haggling for advantages were carried on under the camouflage of a valiant fight for 'freedom of the press...
...success would require not only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...
...Question Box" in the February...
Down into a musty vault in the basement of Healy Building at Georgetown University in Washington went a little party of Jesuit officials one day last week. Rummaging around among half-forgotten bales and bundles they came across three small dusty wooden boxes which they lugged out to the light to open. Inside each box the Jesuits beheld 40 or 50 brown bits of bones. In the same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening...