Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandchildren of Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, brother of the 27th President of the U. S., were quietly shipped off to Europe on the S. S. Majestic because the family was in constant dread of snatchers...
...Washington's watchword. But the President put in many an hour discussing the world situation with Bernard Mannes Baruch, Norman Hezekiah Davis, Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black, and many another who marched in & out of the White House. By cable and telephone the President kept in constant touch with Secretary of State Hull at the World Economic Conference in London...
...program for the gathering at London which the preparatory committee spent several months in assembling has been abandoned to consider the pressing question of currency stabilization. The President's constant refusal to peg the dollar has produced violent condemnation abroad and confusion at home, although there are excellent reasons for his negative attitude. It is obvious that when the inflationists in Congress empowered Roosevelt they intended prices to rise higher than they have so far, and that the best way to settle business at a higher level is to let the dollar fall against foreign currency of its own accord...
...Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity-the crooky jew usurers." Once he was elected (under an assumed nationality) to the throne of Bulgaria, but a barber recognized him and spoiled...
...constant development of the House Plan makes the existence of a large class debarred of its privileges particularly undesirable. Obviously House spirit, whatever dimensions it may have assumed at this stage, is a delight in which they will be unable to indulge. For this problem no ready remedy suggests itself. But residence in the Houses carries advantages of a more tangible kind, the use of the dining halls and libraries, and it is unnecessary that these men should be deprived of them...