Word: credite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pension in 1933. That year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping...
...nothing is Mr. Ickes called "Honest Harold." When he saw himself given credit for an accidentally erudite coinage not in his 13-lb. dictionary, he promptly disclaimed it. His listeners had misunderstood him, he said. What he had called Mr. Talmadge was not "eneciable" but "ineffable...
This week the No. 1 question in the world was what to do to help the Jews. Irish Catholic Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
...months many of the faults which had in the past plagued Widener were corrected. The time spent on the hard benches waiting for a book to be resurrected from the stacks was reduced, for example, and the withdrawal period shortened from four to two weeks. For these changes much credit is due the Library staff, but there are still several improvements which would serve even further to increase the efficiency of the Library. Among these, two should be immediate; first, the erection of a chute by which books might be returned, and second, the breaking down of an entire wall...
ADMIRAL BYRD is the only person in the world who could have written a book like "Alone," and it is greatly to his credit and to the friends who persuaded him that he finally decided after four years of indecision to write this unbelievable record of his struggles with the bitterest elements, alone for five months at an advance base in the Antarctic. It is not so much from the man or from his writing but rather from what the man did that the book derives its greatness. Although the author's style and ideas are more sincere than brilliant...