Word: demure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself a political refugee turned manufacturer of hat machinery and the first successful (Otis) elevator motor...
...Peers in 1890, and in 1903 succeeded his brother-in-law as President. For two decades and a half he has held that post with a royal aloofness from party squabbles, yet with an extraordinary democracy in private life. Such is his prestige that he was chosen without demur or question to represent Japan at the vital Washington Conference...
...European monopoly which will seek the destruction of the American nitrogen fixation industry, now so rapidly developing in ... (this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active in Washington. They accept Dr. Herty's major doctrine regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude. But they demur at his denunciation of foreign loans. They would fight back by Europe's methods. They cannot now. They are blocked by the Sherman Anti-Trust law which forbids amalgamations likely to stifle competition. So (argued they last week) repeal the Sherman Anti-Trust law, or at least amend...
...Geneva last week. The debaters were, of course, the representatives of the World Court Adherent Powers, who had assembled (TIME, Sept. 6) at the invitation of the League of Nations. All present expressed their good will toward the U. S. and passed the first four* reservations without notable demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching...
...days, the reason being that neither the delegate from Spain nor the delegate from Brazil was present. One was "ill, the other had pressing business." The real reason was that Spain and Brazil both demand to be made permanent members of the Council, and the other nations demur. If the strain grows too acute one or both of them may even withdraw from the League-at least that was the talk in Rio de Janiero...