Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat crisis comes not so much from overproduction as underconsumption. It would be rash indeed to call for limitation of cultivation of cereals when in the world there are too many people poverty-stricken and grievously distressed. ... It is particularly fortunate that this conference is taking place in the calm political atmosphere of the moment...
...calm political atmosphere of the moment" lasted about that long. Delegates representing the U. S., Hungary, Jugoslavia and other wheat-growing countries were in favor of a gradual limit on wheat-growing, some agreement modeled after the Chadbourne sugar plan (TIME, Feb. 2). This suggestion was immediately opposed by the big wheat importers- Great Britain and Italy-who have everything to gain from a continuation of the low price of wheat. A second suggestion, to grant preferential tariffs in Europe to wheat grown in the Danube basin (possibly an echo of Foreign Minister Briand's "United States of Europe...
...derogatory articles. William Powell merely saunters in and about the low and high dives of Paris following the dictates of a fairly weak story and a fairly weak conscience. There are no stirring dramatic scenes, only slight touches of humor are inserted, and even the love interest is calm...
Petter's Bombshell. With a single blow of his hard Canadian fist, Baron Beaverbrook shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave as good as she received. But yeast proved her undoing...