Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, Lord Swinton and his Air Ministry subordinates decided that they could be on the safe side only by placing orders in the U. S. for the manufacture of at least 700 fighting planes. This decision came just after U. S. aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes if there is "reason...
...front cover) In Castel Gandolfo last month His Holiness Pope Pius XI, much refreshed by a summer in the cool Alban Hills, summoned to his side for an hour's conference His Eminence Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State to His Holiness, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica. What the 79-year-old Holy Father said to the austere, slim-fingered 60-year-old Prince of the Church who is his most trusted associate, no outsider knew. Next day, amid villagers' cheers and band music, the Pope returned from Castel Gandolfo to Vatican...
Wisecracks have played an important role in the career of New Hampshire's George Higgins Moses. The day in 1929 he called his Progressive Republican Senate colleagues "sons of the wild jackass," he made political enmities that have yet to cool. Last June, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Roy Roberts remarked that a fine Democratic song would be "Landon-Bridges Falling Down...
...cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally cool in response to his oratory. Only an occasional burst of applause or cheers interrupted the Republican nominee as, with the nation listening by radio, he cried...
...refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to cool off the crew so that the President Hoover might...