Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will be due in no small measure to last week's discussions between President Roosevelt and his distinguished visitors...
President Roosevelt made another deep bow to the ladies last week. He had already made Frances Perkins the country's first female Cabinet member by appointing her Madam Secretary of Labor. He had made Ruth Bryan Owen first U. S. woman envoy by appointing her Madam Minister to Denmark. Now, to be the first Madam Director of the Mint he chose, and the Senate confirmed. Nellie Tayloe Ross, hardy Wyoming plains-woman who in 1925 had the distinction of being first U. S. woman Governor when she filled the vacancy left by her deceased husband. Madam Director Ross...
First reason for all this is that France needs money. Despite the vast hoards of gold in the deep cellars of the Bank of France, the French Government has a budget deficit to hold its own with any in the world, and must raise 5,000,000,000 francs by July 1. Another internal loan would be a risky business. To charm the francs from Jean Frenchman's famed sock to float the last one, the Government was forced to offer 4½ bonds at 98½ with the costly promise to redeem at 150. France therefore gets...
...charming and optimistic, launch out as soon as they have any money without ever considering whether they will be able to carry on afterwards or not. . . . Absenteeism is the trouble everywhere in South America. . . . The most frequent mistake made in studying South American politics is the determination to find deep currents of opinion where there is in reality nothing more than personal contests...
...conceivably have accomplished a fragment of this by any other methods except those of Ghandi. The British are finding it very uncomfortable to deal with a potent force that Ghandi has set in motion. Ghandi is anything but a "demagogue." No man since Buddha has been held with such deep reverence by his people as this frail little man. None, not even excepting Buddha, has gained such a tremendous following in that land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi- cal and spiritual qualities. "Ghandism a striking corpso"--strange indeed! Those who have even a Faint...