Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland is wavering, Czechoslovakia stands firmer than ever in alliance with France. This year "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." Foreign Minister Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, is taking his turn as President of the League Council. To oblige M. Barthou last week M. Benes paid Russia the unprecedented compliment of popping into his limousine and riding as Council President 20 miles out to Comrade Litvinoff's village. He brought an invitation for Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which...
...considered Colombia's political mummy. With artful zeal Dr. Lopez built up tall, big-boned, Enrique Olaya Herrera, then Colombian Minister at Washington, into a popular candidate and secured his election (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). This year President Olaya took such strenuous steps to return the compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent, the Conservative Party, put up no candidate and boycotted the polls, de claring: "No matter how the people vote, the Government will elect Lopez." After the balloting, President-Elect Lopez obtained what looked to Colombians like the tacit endorsement of President...
...know what the Portuguese will have to say about this, but I don't suppose they'll take it as a compliment. I do know you're treading on the toes of lots of people in this locality who have resented slips of this sort in the past...
Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
Shirely Temple, and God only knows where they found such a wonder, is just the kind of five year-old you would want for a sister if you bad to have one, and the present rovlower can think of no higher compliment. The poise of the child is truly beyond belief, and must be seen to be appreciated...