Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pickings were slim, but he did get a large order for wrapping paper and proudly cabled it to London. The wrapping paper manufacturers puzzled over the cable, then wrote and mailed a cautious British letter. The esteemed favour of the 15th inst. was received, but might they enquire how the wrapping paper was to be wrapped? They had the honour to remain. Sirs, y'r obedient & humble serv'ts. By the time this letter reached Canada, the customers, who had received no cabled reply to their order, were already wrapping parcels with U. S. wrapping paper, ordered...
Compact, kinetic, quick-spoken, the new Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted by their experience, Mr. Chapin last week began his job even before he took office by rushing into print with a splurge of economic good cheer.* To spellbound newshawks he ejaculated...
...Noble Idea." Emboldened by the stand of Russia and Italy, cautious Dr. Rudolph Nadolny took the floor, demanded equality of armament for Germany with other Great Powers under the Hoover Plan. He threatened that if Germany is not given this equality of armament at a reduced level (provided for in the Treaty of Versailles) she will boycott the Disarmament Conference when it meets again...
...trustees and commanders met privately in the country home of Trustee Leonard Hanna at Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland where the organization was formed. Plotting their part in the coming elections, the Crusader board, of which Mrs. Sabin's stepson Charles Jr. is a member, took a more cautious course than their feminine contemporaries. In a statement which leaned toward but did not embrace the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Crusaders declared: "Our position is now, as always, to support only those candidates for office, regardless of party affiliations, who favor the principles for which we stand. . . . The Democratic...
...which start slowly and work up to a dignified climax about Nov. 1. They have a way of winning elections by machine-like strength rather than by inspired management or smart innovations. They arouse no crusading enthusiasms among the electorate but they make no major blunders. They are cool, cautious, calculated...