Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to express surprise that when President Hoover has assumed his real figure of an insatiable Shylock, his representative in Europe-for Norman Davis is playing the role of a super-Ambassado-is interfering between France and Germany and between France and Italy. . . . Europe's foreign politics seem to be to the United States a kind of hellbroth into which Mr. Hoover, like Macbeth's witches, keeps pouring new poison...
Foresighted air transport operators regard the express business as their ace-in-the-hole. Passenger business is rarely profitable to any long-distance carrier. Airmail subsidies are subject to politics. Airmail loads vary inversely as the postage rates (they are off 30% since the airmail stamp was upped to 8?). But air express has been zooming, will climb this year to 1,000,000 lb., 66% higher than last year...
Into the game last week stepped a new player who, instead of saving up the express ace, played it as his first and only card. He was Philip Henry Philbin Jr., youthful, debonair son of a Colorado hotelman, who learned the aviation business as a $1-a-year assistant to President Harris ("Pop") Hanshue of Western Air Express, later headed Mid-Continent Air Express. Last week he announced Air Express Corp. ready to operate a daily 17 to 18-hr. service between New York and Los Angeles, exclusively for express. First flights...
...understand Shakespeare's writing in Hamlet 'There is something rotten in the state of Denmark!' ... I want to express sorrow and anger at this event...
Quite possibly Prince Aage spoke for King Christian X, who of course could not openly express the Danish Royal Family's hate & fear of Leon Trotsky. Not merely a practitioner of revolution, the Russian is also its greatest living theorist. As the author of "the theory of permanent revolution," Comrade Trotsky holds that the lower classes are at all times revolting against the upper classes. Naturally Danish Deputies of the Right and Centre took Prince Aage's letter as their cue to heap torrents of abuse on Denmark's bearded Socialist Premier Thorvald Stauning. Premier Stauning retorted...