Word: expressibly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Argentina, which pegged her peso to the French franc when sterling went off gold, pegged back to sterling last week as South Americans awaited a "devaluation race" between the dollar and the pound. Stormed bellicose Baron Beaver-brook's Daily Express in London: "The revalued dollar demands an answer and the British answer should be a revalued pound. A great world currency war has been begun by President Roosevelt and he will fight America's trade battle with ?400,000,000 of conscripted gold...
BOMBAY MAIL-Lawrence G. Blochman -Little, Brown ($2). Death and fast action take place on the crack Trans-Indian Express. First victim is the Governor of Bengal, second the Maharaja of Zunjore. Inspector Prike, sorting suspects, encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies. Village scenes of India, butterflies, toxicologist and acrobat flit past before the inspector brings conclusion to a crime that beat the book to the Screen...
Naturally, all the disgruntled factions have seized this as a glorious opportunity for embarrassing the government; for the Royalists, in particular, the present state of affairs is highly comforting, for it affords them a fine chance to express their feelings with great violence. Were the demonstrations limited to more riots, obviously staged by antagonistic elements, they could be dismissed as simply an excited reaction to corruption in high places. There is, however, reason to believe that the dissatisfaction in more than superficial, that, in fact, it shows a collapse of the French belief in parliamentarians and in the Republic...
...Hoover-appointed Democrats whom President Roosevelt allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones...
...Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time with the committee. He admitted that Postmaster Brown had promised a transcontinental mail contract if T. A. T. would merge with Western Air Express. Result: the merged company, Transcontinental & Western Air, now flies the mail. After a noon recess Mr. Sheaffer returned with amended testimony. Chairman Black shot at him: "Where'd you go for lunch?" The witness flushed, stammered, admitted he had lunched with officials involved in the transaction under investigation. Later...