Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just what assets Germany holds abroad. Moreover, the political situation in Germany was so improved (TIME, Aug. 17) that everyone felt more free to handle the Germans firmly. There was much criticism of German domestic extravagance. From the Wall Street point of view no financial diplomat could better express the hard truth which Germany had yet to be told than Banker Wiggin. As head of the Committee he could say these things privately or call as he did upon other speakers. Sir Walter Layton was loud in demanding German fiscal reform; he pointed proudly to the drastic economies that Britain...
...Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington...
Scarcely half the grouse moors were rented this year, and comparatively few of those were occupied on The Twelfth. King George, an excellent shot, whose favorite stand is Geallaig moors near Balmoral Castle, remained in London. But he received by express a box of the first day's kill on the royal moors...
Corporal Cain the second before he stepped off the plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...
...Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route, finally aroused active interest of Thompson Aeronautical Corp. of Cleveland, operator of mail passenger and express routes in Michigan (Transamerican Airlines Corp., subsidiary...