Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suite in Manhattan's sedate Hotel Plaza bustled and hummed last week with brisk activity. After more than a year of thoroughgoing preparation. Promoter Adolph Oettinger Goodwin was ready to launch his Goodwin Plan by which church people will promote the sale of certain manufactured products and thereby earn 2% commissions (TIME. Dec. 4. 1933). Despite the criticism leveled at it last year by church papers, the Plan has whetted the pious appetites of churchgoers who plan to give the proceeds to Ladies' Aid Societies, home mission boards, Christian Endeavor, et al. Furthermore, devout buyers are assured that...
...when the brisk, tough-thewed, iron-haired ex-banker began to talk business, it was clear that he had by no means lost the spirit which once prompted him to defy the Federal Reserve Board. With a gardenia in his lapel, faultlessly dressed in a dark grey suit, starched collar and pepper-&-salt cravat, he displayed the same earnest optimism which helped make his bank for a few years the biggest in the U. S. Cried...
...heirs of Frenchmen who bought a share at par and tucked it away in the family stocking when Napoleon I founded the Bank of France, the return on investment is thus at the rate of some 30%. Such shareholders would never have fired Governor Moret. They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery. Since 1925 and 1926 respectively, M. Jean Tannery has been dextrously managing those curious magicians' hats of French State finance, La Caisse...
...This is an American expedition! We are not chiselers!" excitedly shouted the leader of one group, Farmer Hans Dietz, a brisk little peasant with acres 60 miles south of Chicago. "Mr. Hitler is no more important than any American politician! We are Americans, first and last, and would go back to the Saar to vote even if the Kaiser was on his throne. There is nothing un-American about this...
...kept flying!", these leaders, as zero hour approached, hauled down their own Nazi banners from German Front headquarters, did not even wait to be threatened by British, Italian, Dutch and Swedish troops of the League's Plebiscite Army (TIME, Dec. 31). As Commander-in-Chief of this Army, brisk Major General John E. S. Brind, D.S.O., had nothing but routine on his hands last week...