Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen went the big, full-time jobs. Most of their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still...
France, like her ally, is calm and proud." As he concluded, swift Reynaud made one last plea for speed: "Immense values are at stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup...
This spring young, ardently Republican State Secretary of Banking John C. Bell Jr., irked by Greenfield's debt-ridden calm, decided to turn on the heat. To collect on old notes due two closed banks, he sued for $2,165,688, refused to settle on Greenfield's termc (5% cash or 100% in 20 years). Fortnight ago, Greenfield went into Federal Court, filed under the Chandler (Bankruptcy...
...piece orchestra. The 500 who survived preliminary weedings played before Stokowski, who judged them for personality, individuality, docility under a conductor. Stokowski would like to have every State represented in his orchestra, but he will not sacrifice musical perfection to geographical neatness. Said he last week in Washington, with calm assurance and bad grammar: "You've never heard an orchestra like this one's going...
...Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...