Word: coaxing
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...chief plank in my platform," says Candidate Shinners, ''is to coax big industries to come to Milwaukee and take people off the streets and keep them out of the penitentiaries...
...railroad problem during Depression and thus far in Recovery has been to coax enough net operating income out of greatly diminished gross receipts to cover almost inflexible fixed charges on a funded debt which in December 1934 stood at $10,560,000,000. In 1929 the railroads had gross receipts of some $7,000,000,000. That income has shrunk by nearly $3,000,000,000. If the roads were spending as much money on operations as they spent in 1929, receiverships would now be almost universal. They have, however, made extraordinary reductions in operating expenses. In 1934 maintenance charges...
...Catholic priests are swines and traitors-swines, all swines! All Catholics are swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine...
Meanwhile last week the concert season was at its peak, with business definitely better than last year when it was on the upswing from the season before. Established artists are having more engagements this winter before bigger audiences. Music halls from coast to coast are plastered with posters which coax people to step inside and buy tickets. Concert headliners in the season's news...
...Berlin as the best guarantee that U. S.-Jewish interests would be protected in the Fatherland. But no Jew seemed to want the hottest U. S. embassy. Even rich Gentiles seemed to have no zeal to be Ambassador to Nazi-dom and the President had to coax into service able but impecunious Professor William Edward Dodd (TIME, June 19. 1933). Last week, however, the still thumping idea of sending a Jew as Ambassador to Berlin was executed with a bang by Joseph Stalin...