Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of three terms the Administration has enjoyed overwhelming press support for its foreign policy. This may have been because of understanding, misunderstanding or indifference. But coincident with a lively interest in the subject, press approval of Administration foreign policy has declined faster than stocks in a Wall Street crash-from 80% support to 20%. As recorded by the Twohey Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, the chief objections...
...crash of 1929 his world came unstuck. In May 1931 followed the failure of the Credit Anstalt in Austria. In September 1931 Britain herself was driven off gold. Desperately Norman tried to glue his world together. He worked with New York. He journeyed to Berlin to see Hjalmar Schacht. And steadily Montagu Norman the man became Montagu Norman the legend...
Killed in Action. Stuart Emeny, 40, distinguished London News Chronicle war correspondent; in the Burma plane crash which killed Major General Orde Charles Wingate. Courageous Emeny first became known for his coverage in 1935-36 of the Ethiopian War. In 1942 another correspondent disquieted Indian press officials with a cable from Cairo: ENEMY REACHES CAIRO INDIAWARDING TOMORROW...
...quiet rose mild Mrs. Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...
...jumped by more Zeros-at least ten of them-and maybe twelve," Lieut. Jones said. "Our gunners really went to work and such shooting you never did see. In 40 minutes I saw three Zeros explode and five more crash into...