Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest of honor at a series of unpublicized but very serious little dinners. The other guests are Republicans who have high hopes of a GOP resurgence in 1940. At one of these dinners last week ex-President Hoover feelingly referred to ex-Hero Lindbergh. Lindbergh, said he, was an earnest, sincere young American who succumbed to some rotten advice...
From such a countryside not yet at war, but grimly preparing for the worst, did Finland's gruff, humbly born, dark-bearded and deeply beloved President Kyosti Kallio last week depart. He left Helsinki by air for Stockholm to confer in desperate earnest with the three tall, umptigenarian Kings of Scandinavia, all markedly democratic, each a devout Lutheran and all keenly aware that the unleashed might of ruthless, un-Christian Bolsheviks and Nazis now menaces the peaceful Nordic States...
...could be learned at Stockholm, Finland was promised no armed support in case she has to fight, but the Three Kings joined with President Kallio in an earnest and hopeful 25-minute broadcast from Stockholm...
During the summer of 1938, earnest, acidulous President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers took a look at his industry. He saw that its 560 firms had a net loss of more than $10,000,000 in the preceding six months and he grew sarcastic. Soon the trade received from President Besse a three-page printed blast against price cutting and reckless competition...
Last week, before the Government's Committee for Reciprocity Information at Washington, Arthur Besse made an earnest plea: 1) terminate all Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...