Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed questioning and repartee in. Pittsburgh, observers were rating him an able opponent of Lawyer Hogan...
...Howell report would have made a small splash indeed in the news if President Roosevelt had not seen fit to slap one of its recommendations down with a curt "No" and to tie a long policy string to another. The investigators thought it would be a good thing to set up a semi-permanent Air Commerce Commission with broad powers over U. S. civil aviation including jurisdiction over rates. Said the President: "In this recommendation I am unable to concur. ... At a later date I shall ask the Congress for general legislation centralizing the supervision of air and water...
...talk was old Emilio Aguinaldo, the patriot who more than a generation ago staged his insurrection against U. S. imperialism. He asked for freedom, not in ten years but much sooner. Senator Tydings turned on him with a curt: "God gave us our brains for thought...
...gentleman who only jumped hedges Viceroy Curzon then wrote a letter, offering to sell him 60 horses, six state landaus and other equipment of the Viceregal stables at extortionate prices. This was followed by a curt Curzon cable: unless Lord Minto accepted the terms by return cable Curzon would sell everything privately. From her husband's diary of that date Lady Minto quotes...
...TIME will pick a Man of the Year, print his picture on the cover of the issue of Jan. 7, 1935. Meanwhile, TIME'S editors are more interested in nominations than in wagers. Let readers state their choices, documented with clear, curt, concise reasons...