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...leaders of Congress definitely gave their consent before the President declared the moratorium. Any way, the choice was simply between remitting payments willingly or having them defaulted. Instead of false regard for its own dignity, congress ought to face the living issue. At present its dilateriness and petty bickerings conceal the President's failure to prepare for the coming crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONGRESSIONAL CHAOS | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

...Zealously did Senator Caraway conceal his middle-name. Once he discharged a secretary for divulging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of Caraway | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...falsity in this case consists in putting before intending investors, as material upon which they can exercise judgment as to the existing position of the company, figures which apparently disclose the existing position but in fact conceal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Kylsant to Wormwood Scrubs | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...mother bird had fluttered off her nest right in front of me, leaving it quickly in an effort to conceal it. But I located it almost at once, then shot her and went after the eggs. There were five of them, tiny things that never had been seen by a scientist before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rare Eggs | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...have a baby," not even the iceman, who complains euphemistically of his fiancee's infidelity: "While I was trying desperately to keep the wolf from the door, the stork flies in the window." Actress Davies appears in the role of Joyce Stanton who, while trying to conceal the pregnancy of the iceman's fiancee, causes herself to be suspected of a similar predicament. She is engaged to an elderly banker but more interested in one of his clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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