Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in the difficulties at present confronting the anthracite industry, may I express my appreciation not only of the article in TIME, July 13, relative to the stolen coal matter, but also of the fairness with which you handled the subject. At the same time, may I call your attention to one error in that article -contrary to your statement, Stevens Coal Co. is operating the properties on which the accident in question occurred...
Dictators Together. Next night Chancellor Schuschnigg went to the microphone in Vienna and dished the Deal in verbose German-the ideal language in which to express several conflicting ideas at once with nebulous luminosity. His bare fact was that Austria and Germany had made a pact. The Schuschnigg broadcast simply did not get down to brass tacks, and neither did subsequent official announcements. A so-called "summary," but not the text of what had been signed, was issued, and officials admitted that this summary did not cover "secret" clauses which exist in the pact. Trying to guess, the world press...
King Edward on his 42nd birthday morn looked out on a London in which almost every one of his male subjects wore a daisy, buttercup, pansy or garden rose in his buttonhole to honor His Majesty. These simple flowers were worn by Edward VIII's express wish that his birthday should not become a "florists' racket." It was more correct to wear a posy plucked in one's own garden than the costliest gardenia...
...airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled the $9,000,000 suits of American, Northwest, Transcontinental & Western and Western Air Express out of court for $600,000, thus tacitly admitted that, in part at least, its 1934 action had been wrongful and unwarranted...
Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...