Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Custom the party leaders called, one by one, on President Gaston Doumergue, and "advised" him. Having barkened well, Bachelor Dou-mergue summoned Bachelor Briand and formally "charged" him to form a cabinet. A few moments later, as M. Briand left the Elysee, he said to correspondents: "In such difficult circumstances, I could not refuse the honor and charge...
...circumstances were enormously difficult because: 1) On the arc of politics M. Briand is several degrees farther to the Left than M. Poincare and would therefore naturally look for support in the Chamber of Deputies to a new alignment of factions and farther to the Left. 2) The 125 radically Radical-Socialists, on whom Briand has often relied before, were left out of the last Poincare Cabinet, are in a huff, and last week made exorbitant demands as the price of their support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American...
...Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying. He works for Boeing Air Transport, most of whose pilots were previously in the difficult Air Mail Service...
...purpose of this personal attack by a relative is quite unknown to me. In 40 years the companies under my chairmanship have passed through difficult periods, but I never had to ask the stockholders to consent to the writing down of the capital of any shipping company. Statements have been circulated about a possible reconstruction of the Royal Mail Company which are absolutely without foundation. For the first six months of this year the results obtained are better than...
...Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata. Exaggeration of conditions then produced disastrous bank runs. Deposits in the closed banks totaled more than...