Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June 14), the chief fisherman was bald old Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
...great yachtsman and golfer, at Princeton a good ballplayer. Therein he differed from Aldrich, a son of Harvard, almost as sharply as in his prose. Aldrich cared little for sport aside from horses. He liked tweeds, quiet, his 400-acre estate near Barrytown, N. Y. His articles were always calm, stately, exact...
Today paper money looks better than gold, and hoarded gold is coming out to swell the record flood of newly-mined metal. Virtually all the gold that came on the market last week was disgorged by frightened hoarders. When the hoarders get really panicky only one thing will calm them: a word from President Roosevelt. At his Friday press conference, the President emphatically declared that there was nothing to worry about...
Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism,* and Dr. Foulkes turned up in Columbus as a commissioner. The Assembly was marked by businesslike calm. Commissioner Foulkes and his colleagues learned that the Presbyterian Church had recovered $1,600,000 in property, and counted on $400,000 more, which Dr. Machen's church had tried to take with it when it split off from the parent body. And to Dr. Foulkes, 59, big, well...