Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long foreshadowed had been the moves of the stalwarts on the Right. Colonel Henry Breckinridge, who assured himself of a cool reception at Philadelphia this week by opposing Franklin Roosevelt in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland primaries, announced that he would not appear to receive it. So did New York's Physician-Senator Royal S. Copeland, conservative oldtime Tammanyman and warm friend of William Randolph Hearst, who has long been at odds with the President and "General" Farley over matters of privilege and patronage. Governor Eugene Talmadge, a practical politician who wants to go on holding office in a Democratic...
...slashing of duties on French wines & liquors had reduced the price of champagnes and cognacs by 80? in the U. S.; and just as new French Premier Léon Blum was talking last week, according to the Associated Press, of appointing an envoy to try and borrow a cool "one billion dollars," abruptly the blood of U. S. citizens was made to boil against the Blum Cabinet and French employes of the American Hospital in Neuilly...
...from $7.75 per bbl. to $5.50. Speculating in potatoes is ticklish business because there is no potato futures market, and operators find it hard to unload in a hurry. In last week's flurry a number of speculators were caught with their hands full of hot potatoes. And cool week-end rains in the East did not add to their comfort...
...Keep cool all over all day in B.V.D. These loose fitting, coat cut undershirts and knee length drawers and union suits are the favourites of college men who wear the best. Write for booklet "Cool as a Sea Breeze." It's free...
...watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...