Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What followed put a terrific strain on the Popular Front coalition which supports the Blum Cabinet. Scarcely could French Communists believe their ears when they heard that Premier Blum, not only a Jew but also a Socialist, had greeted with every mark of courteous amity the first German Cabinet minister to go to Paris since the Nazis came to power in Berlin. As for Dr. Schacht, he seemed to have permission from Realmleader Hitler to forget for the duration of his Paris visit everything Germans have been told to remember about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank...
...Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results, I am very happy...
...takes two sides to make an issue, and in the California campaign which followed, Alf M. Landon was definitely not an issue. Puffed by Hearstpapers, he got courteous treatment, many a kind word from Hoover supporters. Their cry: Is William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...
...Dunn, 39-year-old War veteran who in 1934 defeated Rev. W. Lycurgus Spinks for his House seat, uprose to boom in a bullfrog voice: "I have not been boisterous since I became a freshman in this Congress. ... I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty. ... I want you to go with me to a place down at 311 D Street, NW, in the city of Washington...
...noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country's most celebrated peaks to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, who renounced the throne of a tiny Teutonic principality in 1918; his wife; Baron Siegmund von Stieber; seven other European trippers...