Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word Lord Peel opposed granting Dominion Status to India either now or at any specified future time, drew exclamations of fury by his cool sneer and pun that parliamentary institutions in India "are not growth but graft...
...while the failure was a shock, it was not entirely unexpected. The actual news merely substantiated one of many persistent rumors which flooded W:all Street. Where originated all these wild tales, no man could tell. But no man could stop them. Cool brokers fought to quell them, only to catch the disease themselves. Denial seemed to lend authority. Some firms sent memorandums to all employes, warning them that to discuss another firm's financial position, even among themselves, was a breach that could not be tolerated. But as stocks kept falling, the stories flew faster. Weakness in certain issues...
Getting down to statistics the cool-headed Miller said: "It is very doubtful if our home growers would be much better off were Soviet competition withdrawn. Figures of [Russian] shipments to date give no cause for alarm and, indeed, are very small compared with those...
...Prohibition. In his first address he declared for repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of the question to the States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government as "an alien and even hostile power," counseled a new "reasonableness" between Wets and Drys...
...Cool Millions. To popular President Uriburu, scarce 36 hours after the last shot was fired last week, came representatives of Buenos Aires' 14 biggest banks and branch banks (including Manhattan's National City, Boston's First National, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of London & South America...