Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes later the news was on the wires. Ten minutes later in every stock and commodities exchange throughout the land prices were soaring upward. If the Justices believed that their upholding the Government would calm the economic world, they were mistaken. In every market there was turmoil-orders to buy, buy, buy and few or none to sell. Within 15 minutes the Chicago Board of Trade, the grain markets of St. Louis and Kansas City were closed to prevent a buying panic. The New Orleans' Cotton Exchange stayed open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale...
...Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
...Calm and cool amidst the feverish preparations for the coming of the country's Chief Executive, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, lends a reassuring and accustomed note to the great influx of assorted government agents, uniformed, plain clothed, and garbed in a variety of terrifying disguises...
...Italy with the Ambassadors of Great Britain, Germany and France bound the signatories to "co-operate"-for ten years. Scared were the satellites of trance (Poland Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) who feared their protectrice was about make some sort of deal with Germany behind their backs. To calm the satellites clauses were inserted bringing action under the Four-Power Pact "within the framework ot the League of Nations, to which they are parties. German withdrawal from the League put the Pact on ice but it has served to jar Europe into action. Poland, suspicious as a scorned lover hastily made...
...James & Shakespeare, Ltd., strove to put their accounts in order for settlement day and the inevitable tumble in pepper prices that would follow. Garabed Bishirgian, who had often deliberately lost at high-stake poker in order to help the friends he had whipsawed in the market place, was calm. Pepper trading was suspended for another day and then another and another...