Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared to ask you the conditions of an armistice...
...More than 1,000 torchlit Panamanians marched to the British and French Consulates in sympathy demonstrations, cheered and sang as emotion-choked French Vice Consul Pierre Mory thanked them, heard British Consul Lawrence Barnett express the British determination to continue...
...curse of democracy today, in the U. S. as well as in Europe, is that everyone has been trying to please the public. Almost nobody ever gets up and says what he thinks. . . . We must not promise jobs unless we turn industry loose to make jobs. We must not express sympathy for the unemployed and then tax profits so outrageously that money will not flow into new industries to make new jobs. We must not say that we have a good army, when the statistics prove otherwise. . . ." In Boston: "It may be that for ten years we have made...
...across the Pacific: from San Francisco (via Los Angeles) 6,540 miles to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops at Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea in New Caledonia. Pan Am began surveying the New Zealand run in 1935, in 1938 was ready to start mail and express service...
...Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls two years ago agreed to build the big new yard at Pascagoula for the express purpose of getting part of the $1,000,000,000 Maritime Commission program...