Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Court adjourned, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson announced that the outstanding case on the Supreme Court calendar-another hearing on the constitutionality of TVA-had been postponed until mid-November. Mr. Jackson was a little jocose. He said he and his friends were "not unappreciative of the compliment implied'' by New York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served...
...optional." In these circumstances Premier Daladier, whose Radical Socialist Party is proverbially the middle-of-the-road group which believes anything can be handled by compromise, flew to London. Mr. Chamberlain dashed all the way out to Croydon airport (15 miles) to meet M. Daladier who beamed at the compliment, and forgotten were early French grumbles: "Since he flew to Berchtesgaden, Chamberlain should also have flown to Paris...
...active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political...
...Krupp cannon, as a delicate compliment to her, were called Big Berthas.) The Kaiser permitted her husband to change his name to Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach "to ensure at least an appearance of continuity of the Essen dynasty." Krupp von Bohlen built model huts for his workers but he was always "master in his own house"-meaning that he permitted no unions. Between 1914 and 1918 Krupp's profits were magnificent. But when the Kaiser came to address Krupp employes in the last days of the War and cried, "We will fight and hold out to the last...
...Cabot still treasures as a great compliment a remark he overheard in the gas fields: "Hell, Mr. Cabot's as common as anyone...