Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posts in Berlin, Peking, Constantinople, Athens, Persia, Budapest, Morocco, Madrid, St. Petersburg. Friendly at first to Germany and fearing Russia's encroachments in the Near East, Nicolson came gradually to reverse this feeling, and ended by doing everything he could to strengthen the Anglo-Russian-French entente. He foresaw Germany's menace to England, but even during the War, "he was incensed by the theory . . . that Germany had provoked the War. . . . He was appalled by the Treaty of Versailles. Particularly did he resent the paragraph which obliged Germany by force to admit that she was solely responsible...
...Nemours & Co. Inc., United Corp., United States Steel Corp., General Electric Co. In discussing present conditions, the Babson report said the drought had been one reason clients have been kept out of stocks since November. Apparently misconstruing the meaning, Barren's (Dow-Jones weekly) decried this prophet who foresaw drought months ahead, wondered why he did not have the power to prevent it as well. While Roger Ward Babson's recent fame gave his report wide publicity, dispatches from London quoted a more bullish viewpoint on the part of a far greater financier. As president of the mighty...
...when venerable (formed in 1845) Lamport & Holt Ltd. went into a receivership. The Royal Mail Steam Packet group of shipping companies, to which Lamport & Holt belongs, has given many a shock already and last week's receivership merely meant that the management has started a reorganization. Shipping men foresaw some such development when Lamport & Holt withdrew their South American passenger service recently (TIME...
...grows steadily in influence and respect. . . . International questions have nearly all been settled, and the problems of government have now become social and economic within the confines of the State. . . . Dictators are weakening. Democracy is triumphant." Foreseeing not only a general revival of world-prosperity, Mr. Ochs also specifically foresaw Germany as leading in the industrial renaissance. Said he: "I have spent a few weeks touring in Germany and there I have seen much. ... I have been impressed with the thought that Germany is making a marvelous recovery from the financial effects of the War. . . . I predict that Germany...
...House and as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, to advocate this major change was the apparent victory of the industrial Northeast over the South & West in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. If the Lone Star State were changed into a constellation of five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead of 20. The mule-like kick in Mr. Garner's threat-proposal lay in the fact...