Word: calmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that 57 of the 63 seats in Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer off-the-record view. Sniffed one: "Social credit is interesting and the sooner it fails in Alberta the bigger the lesson to the world will...
...Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...looks very much as he feels. Many victims do die during their first attack of angina pectoris. But for most victims the first attack is the heart's warning that it will cease working if its brain, soul and body do not instantly change to a calmer way of life...
...business opportunities were coming thicker ; soon there would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife had taken a lover. To make Hugo notice, she finally had to tell him; they had a fervid reconciliation, a second honeymoon. Feeling calmer, Hugo then closed up his business, prepared to spend the rest of his life in poverty, studying mathematics. Thunderstruck, his wife left him for good. Hugo, sure of himself at last, went off to find his old friend...
Messrs. Johnson and Ryan grew calmer. They and their prisoner dressed. Accompanied by Inspector Als they went to the Book-Cadillac hotel to spend the remainder of the night. At 9 a. m. they appeared in a shabby little immigration court. There a board of inquiry decided within 15 minutes that Martin Insull was likely to become a public charge and could not be admitted to the U. S. The board however consented to parole him in custody of the Chicago police until his trial...