Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insist that "Hitler was only bluffing. There was no real danger of war." Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result of such negotiations, but the fact remains that bloodshed was averted." The President thus lined up with Chamberlain and Halifax on the major premise that not only war but a "world war" did actually threaten...
...White House Spokesman" read to Industry and Labor alike a polemic on the evils of sabre-rattling. To him then went Newspaper Guildsman Heywood Broun. Let the President, said C.I.O.'s Broun, create a commission to give U.S. Labor the same cool study which was recently applied at White House order to British and Swedish industrial relations...
...people of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
This first novel moves at such a rate, contains so many fights, explosions, ambushes, traps, gun battles and get aways that even devoted lovers of adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...
...Symmes is a giant, hard-driving Yankee, who punches his Portygee workers in the nose, terrorizes even the town banker. But when the hero, a skinny, down-&-out college graduate, goes to work in the factory, terrible Symmes has no chance. Scrawny Keith Bain simply parries his bullying with cool, ironical sass. When Symmes hesitates and fumes about giving Bain five cents more an hour, the puny David says: "Come on, Symmes, make up your mind. . . ." This defiance works so well, in fact, that Symmes invites him to board at his home...