Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skipper Sopwith can buy her back. Endeavour II, blue like her predecessor, is 87 ft., 164 tons-4 ft. longer on the water line and 20 tons heavier than Endeavour I. Last summer she won nine races out of 18 starts, lost her mast twice, proved better in calm than stormy weather...
...tzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week...
...secretaire by Martin Carlin, cabinetmaker to Louis XVI, which Dealer Edward Duveen bought for $40,000. Top price among the paintings: $87,500, by Thomas Agnew & Sons for Pieter de Hooch's quiet Dutch Courtyard. Less costly but equally decorous were van de Velde's Calm Sea with Shipping ($10,500) and Metsu's Woman Cleaning Fish ($14,000). Victor Rothschild's ancestors apparently did not go in for nudes...
...welcome, upon which Miss Mader based a dance. Words: "O Roosevelt, universally known, President of the nation, the foremost of America. You are the only President who has come to Hawaii. You have braved the stormy weather and traveled the long seas, stepping over the waves to our calm shores to find Hawaii situated in the midst of the Pacific. Welcome! Here we stand ready before you, the President of the people. Tell us, what would you like us to do, Roosevelt...
...calm seclusion of his Florentine villa, Mr. Taylor ruminated upon alternatives. Finally he wrote, tore up, wrote and rewrote a memorandum embodying a new labor policy for Steel. Says FORTUNE: "Whether by coincidence or design, the statement is exactly 100 words long, and these 100 words represent a summer's work. But they packed more dynamite than any 100 words ever written by a U. S. industrialist." The Taylor formula for industrial peace...