Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion of the annual dinner of the New York Real Estate Board President Hoover sent its chairman a telegram: "I will be obliged if you will express my cordial greetings and best wishes for an inspired meeting." Present was New York's Democratic Governor and Presidential aspirant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Observed he: "I take it, on the strength of this, that Mr. Hoover will be a candidate for re-election...
...embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits of the four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly its disapproval of the conduct of any officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part of an officer of your rank and length of service merits and receives the unqualified condemnation...
...Corp. came into being. Four years later energetic Charles M. Schwab formed Bethlehem Steel Corp. Steel began to be used widely for buildings. McClintic-Marshall prospered. One of their first orders was from the Marshall Field store. Anxious to please, with much to learn, they shipped the girders by express. Much other business followed. By 1929 McClintic-Marshall was doing a $50,000,000-a-year business, had a 600,000-ton capacity. Its only sizable competitor was American Bridge Co., subsidiary of United States Steel Corp. American Bridge builds fewer bridges than McClintic-Marshall, more buildings. Great...
...Krynica. On the express trains that run from Warsaw three times a week, Polish sport fans rode out to Krynica, their winter sports resort, and put up at the big grey Hotel Lwigrod where you can get a room, meals and a real bath for $4.50 per day. The hotel was crowded because in Krynica last week was being played the international amateur hockey tournament. The tournament is decided by the total number of goals scored by a team in all its games after the preliminary eliminations, and U. S. supporters were worried at first that their entry?the Boston...
...Adams Express (Investment Trust...