Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tense and weary one 10 a. m. last week Scot MacDonald boarded The Flying Scotsman. As she puffed out of London a dining car steward offered place tickets for lunch and the Prime Minister took one. Snorting swiftly North, the famed express had crossed one-third of England before luncheon bells rang. With scant appetite the leader of the "National Government" forked food mechanically. Into the diner walked a lifelong friend, Arthur Henderson, leader last week of the Labor Party which Mr. MacDonald led a few short weeks ago. The two men neither spoke nor nodded, cut each other dead...
...Hurley remarked upon the unwillingness of many of his witnesses to have their testimony made public for fear of boycott. "What is told me in confidence I must hold in confidence," he explained. "Furthermore, I cannot assume responsibility for statements made by men who have not the courage to express publicly their real opinions." He was also quoted as saying that the U. S. had the same right to the Philippines as had been exercised by the Indonesians, the Malays and the Spaniards-the right of conquest. This set the Manila politicos sputtering. Through their news organs they demanded elucidation...
...there should be a great effort on the part of organizations of our country to express their disapproval of such expenditures now, even though the projects may be most meritorious. They should be withheld until the country is in better condition."* ¶ Rain and cold greeted President Hoover when he arrived at his Rapidan camp for the weekend. Most of his time was spent sitting around a roaring log fire talking to Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico-possibly, guessed the Press, about Governor Roosevelt's being sent to the Philippines to relieve Dwight Filley Davis...
...newsgathering in the U. S. From London to Manhattan last fortnight came such a reporter, Margaret Lane, daughter of Editor-in-Chief Harry George Lane of the Northcliffe newspapers (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News, etc.). On leave of absence from her job on Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, bitter rival of her father's organization, Miss Lane found work with Hearst's International News Service. Her first assignment was the Collings murder case of which she said in Publishers' Service, tradepaper: "I found the Collings mys tery very funny. . . . Everyone was so casual and friendly...
...student is premitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor...