Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caffery was required to take his risky stroll because at that very hour in Washington the U. S. was making over its diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the State Department, Secretary Hull and Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuba's Ambassador, were signing a treaty to replace the fundamental compact made between the U. S. and Cuba in 1903. The new agreement omitted the famed "Platt Amendment...
...Fritz Thyssen capped many previous generosities with a single contribution of 3,000,000 marks for the German presidential campaign. But old Fritz, despite his personally violent nationalism, was not at all hostile to the De Wendel-Schneider interests in France. He favored, in fact, a working compact with them so long as he could retain unhampered control of his own properties. We see, then, the spectacle of a Nazi supporter on the one hand breathing fire against France, and on the other sitting down on terms of thorough understanding with the principal armament firm that represented the implacable political...
...father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills, the compact crinkle-bearded old man scrambled up into Sana, city of 40,000, and squatted in his throne room where the only ornament on the dark blue walls is his own scimitar. Refusing to abdicate, he set about rallying his black, wiry, citizens for the defense of Sana...
...More Ladies (by A. E. Thomas; Lee Shubert, producer). Nimbly written around the tried & seldom true formula of a philandering husband who is brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with...
...sales bell rang often enough to keep up the general optimism of the 150 exhibitors. Notable absentees of last year, Gar Wood and Chris-Craft, were back in the fold. Sales emphasis had shifted from the glittering high-speed craft of yesterday to compact, comfortable utility runabouts and small cruisers, moderately priced, for family...