Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With almost evenly divided opinions, and studied calm, listened quietly as debate began on extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for three years. Said Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.): to abandon the policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...
...Intensive air bombing of supply lines and the enemy's home front is highly effective even against people as calm and well organized as the Finns. If port facilities and factories are not put out of commission, their functioning is greatly reduced by air-raid interruptions. Though torn-up tracks may soon be relaid, troop trains are harassed, train schedules disrupted by repeated threats from above...
...Spiral of Inflation." To irate critics who call the whole ?400 million scheme a "forced loan," Professor Keynes is tireless in his calm, persuasive retorts. He starts by asking everyone to remember how, during World War I, prices rose much faster than wages (as they are again doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet...
...effort to calm the crowd, which was growing sullen with cries of "Down With Sullivan" and "Make Sullivan Speak," George Robert Stange '42 delivered an address explaining the delay. Branding Sullivan a "publicity seeker" and a "red-baiter," Stange stated that some unidentified person had called Sullivan the night before to reveal that a Leftist play was being put on at Harvard...
...debating teams, he still was to win his spurs in the hard school of the House of Commons. He quickly became known as a quiet plugger rather than a brilliant go-getter. He looked more like an office boy than a Cabinet member. His chief virtues were patience and calm...