Word: calmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published optimism of the Express paid big. Same day the Munich agreement was signed, auditors began totting up Express sales for the "crisis" month of September, found they had reached an alltime peak of 2,520,205 a day. In calmer October they dropped slightly to 2,507,137. No other newspaper in history has ever averaged above 2,500,000 for even one month. Crowed the Express: ''Peace . . . met the demand...
Jerry blows up. His friend the Judge takes a calmer view, says that all good conservatives were red-hot radicals in their youth. At last Jerry downs this bitter pill too, grants the young vipers his blessing, if not his comprehension, as they leave to join an ambulance corps in Loyalist Spain...
...Alberto Enriquez, resigned in a body to take their places in the army, were replaced last week with civilian ministers. All week mobs roamed the plazas of Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development and the Government heads would have to be completely mad to think of war," he said.* Nevertheless, observers allowed that the Oriente still contained plenty of combustibles at week...
...short although many of the proposals of the President are as worthy of stinging defeat as ever, it appears likely that his mental state is calmer and more conciliatory, quieted perhaps by the start of a depression which may well develop into one fully as fearful as the depression which first elected Mr. Roosevelt. But vastly more important than the President attitude is the attitude of Congress, and if the beginning of the special session is any barometer, the fears of business men, which have been responsible for this "second depression," should be largely groundless...
...through the early part of the season the Lions, seriously handicapped by the choppy water which kept them off the larger river, were confined to the Harlem. Then came calmer weather and with it a cessation of those short paddles...