Word: briefing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nevertheless he blasted at jurisdictional strikes as unjustified, conferred repeatedly on the labor situation. He made a brief speech to the farmers of the nation on the place of the farm in defense...
Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
...When World War II broke, he was too old to fight but he wanted to help. Turning up in Ottawa in dowdy clothes spotted by cigaret ashes, he promoted a laboratory for aviation research. Rumor had it that he was working on ways to prevent "blackouts" (brief losses of consciousness) in fighter pilots pulling out of steep dives. It was in connection with this work that he was flying to England...
Then he delivered the first sharp words he had allowed himself in his brief official career. Said he of the Stock Exchange members: "I would be naive if . . .I told you that I thought I had had the loyal support that I think I am entitled to from all branches of the membership." (His audience sat in grim, chill silence.) Said he of SEC and its staff: "[They are] to a degree men of good will, but they are men utterly ignorant of the basic conception of markets." (SEC cracked back next day with the fact that its staff...
Died. Allen Ledyard Lindley, 60, longtime Wall Street broker, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct until June 1937, grandson of cable-laying Cyrus W. Field; after brief illness; in Englewood...