Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
...also an excellent excuse for Secretary of the Interior Ickes to do something which no member of the Roosevelt Cabinet had yet dared to do-i.e., to express publicly his vast distaste for Huey P. Long. "I don't think," growled the PWAdministrator, "that Senator Long is going to dictate to us on how we are going to administer public works in Louisiana. . . . Mr. Long by the action of his Legislature will keep a lot of men out of work by making it impossible for PWA to make loans or grants. Apparently the Senator favors sharing wealth...
Railway glamor such as even the 20th Century Limited never knew has ridden for half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that...
...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
Month ago Yugoslavian editors flayed Hollywood for misrepresenting the Balkans' trains de luxe in the cinema Orient Express, scare-headed AMERICAN FILM LIES ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (TIME, April 1). Last week the Yugoslavian Government suppressed as long as possible a secret which finally leaked out: for the first time any Yugoslav could remember since the War, the mail car of the Orient Express had been robbed...