Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plenty; upheld the President's request for the right to allocate relief funds and spanked the Senate for contesting that right. He pleaded for a proper census of unemployed and expressed favor of a five-day week at six-day wages. Writer Smith's style was calm, warm, readable. Excerpts...
Better than anyone else the Commander-in-Chief knew how near he and his country were to defeat and ruin every day, every hour. . Enemies of "Papa" Joffre say with cutting sarcasm that, "his greatest attribute as a commander was calm." Calmly he flung this division to certain death, calmly he learned that another had broken through, calmly he received the best news and the worst. Whenever the panicky politicians in Paris telephoned him, the sound of his voice and what he said was always reassuring. It is for that that "the people" are still grateful. They feel that without...
...Calm, dignified but surprising was an announcement made by the $1,162,000,000-in-assets Transamerica Corp. last week. It said that Transamerica's shares had been unduly depressed,† that a group of executives had formed a $20,000,000 syndicate to support the stock, that all shareholders were invited to participate in this syndicate...
...years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March...
...Austria the Fascist party (Heim-wehr) of Prince Ernst Rudiger von Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...