Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good many thousands who attended that convention could hardly believe their eyes when they read in the press: "I am writing you as a citizen of the State of New York which you represent in the U. S. Senate to voice my opposition to the Court Bill and to express my hope that you will vote against it. ... Several months ago I wrote to [Franklin Roosevelt] that I believed its enactment would not be in the best interests of the country. In the months that have passed since then my convictions have become strengthened. . . . Whatever immediate gain might be achieved...
...good deal more than this on issues of Government policy (TIME, Oct. 26) but in England many authorities consider it "unconstitutional" and last week, when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still...
...Calcutta-Lahore express plowed stolidly through one night last' week on its 1,100-mile journey. In the morning, hundreds of natives jampacked in the first five cars dozed fitfully on for they had had little sleep. In the two rear cars European passengers rode in greater comfort...
Last week, therefore, he was delighted to have Mr. H. H. Kung, Finance Minister of China, come into his office and express China's longing to have a little golden egg of her own. Such an egg Mr. Kung figured would assist China to stabilize her once all-silver currency in relation to the currencies of the great nations which adhere to gold as a medium for settling balances. Would Mr. Morgenthau take some of China's silver in exchange for gold? Mr. Morgenthau was delighted for he is supposed to buy silver under the Silver Purchase...
VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY-Cecil Roberts -Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings...