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Word: calmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When war broke loose Franklin Roosevelt in the White House had tocsined the U. S. public to a feverish pitch. Then he permitted a week of domestic calm. Last week, before Congress met, he got on the bell-rope again. He upped the Coast Guard's personnel by 2,000, for coastal peace patrol. Undenied was a story that his State, War & Navy Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...slumped in a front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict on the subject-we will not. . . . It will calm you to learn that Germany does not, and did not, want to conquer the Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Miraculous Conviction | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Galilee's King | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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