Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national comment in the press since Saturday has dwelt upon Mr. Reed's past leading part in the argument of leading cases for the Government. Obviously he cannot be too discreet with regard to legal issues that may later come before him as a member of the court. The question for argument on Friday presents such issues...
...President Roosevelt the name of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Since Colonel Lindbergh is obviously not hounding Congressman Randolph for political patronage, the suggestion seemed to have been prompted by nothing more than a Congressman's normal appetite for publicity-except for two things: 1) Mr. Randolph's letters dwelt at length on the idea that the U. S. "must continue its world leadership" in transoceanic aviation and 2) Mr. Lindbergh is technical adviser to Pan American Airways, which holds, on Government sufferance, a monopoly of the country's over-ocean flying. And it so happens that Pan American...
...Usher dwelt on the necessity of a long range economic policy to ensure a stable economy. He expressed himself as against a policy of entrusting such planning entirely to a beaurocratic, centralized system...
...little expression of it in Boston. Guest Speaker Glenn Frank, erstwhile president of the University of Wisconsin, rapped at the Administration, as did President Henning Webb Prentis of Armstrong Cork Co., and both were resoundingly clapped, but the vast majority of topics discussed in the four-day conclave dwelt upon problems more pertinent to bankers than to the nation...
Copeland, Picking up where Secretary Hull left off on the subject of world chaos, dry Dr. Melvin T. Copeland* of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration dwelt long and lovingly on commodity prices as a reflection both of U. S. trade and of the state of the world. Be cause of trade barriers and the nationalistic spirit, commodity prices began a general decline in 1925 which continued after the crash of 1929. On war demand and business revival early this year they had a strong comeback until the speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt...