Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first diplomat from Russia since Kerensky's representative departed in 1922. With his escort he waited in the Green Room for a moment until the President was ready to receive him in the Blue Room. In excellent English the Ambassador read: . . . The very fact of the cooperation and friendship between two such great and powerful nations as the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics must inevitably be of great historical significance and of direct far-reaching moment in the cause of world peace. . . . On entering my mission here. I shall consider it my highest task...
...issue, for 1) he planned to finance the Bonus with greenbacks, and 2) two years ago at a hearing on the Bonus bill he met and made friends with George LeBlanc-French Canadian by birth, Manhattan banker by training, and inflationist by theory-the same Mr. LeBlanc whose friendship with Thomas was the basis of Banker Warburg's charge (TIME, Jan. 1) that LeBlanc wrote the Senator's speeches. Whatever theories Senator Thomas may have picked up from Banker LeBlanc the push behind his drive for inflation was his own. The developments of 1933 added many a feather...
Because, in the loneliness of Power, Il Duce admits no other mortal to close friendship he spends most of his evenings alone, finds distraction, when not working, in his violin and in censoring cinemas. Came news last week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together...
...other characters refer at odd moments to the same person. One has but a scrappy and incomplete knowledge of his nature. Then, nicely dovetailed, there appears some short description or conversation which unites all previously known and adds to it with economy, so that the reader emerges with a friendship and knowledge of the character in question which he hardly remembers having got. There is a delicate satirical nimbus over the entire volume; at the same time, not one of the many who enter the pages is let go unsympathetically. The great virtue and strength of the work is understanding...
...resignation; to take a complete leave of absence and to do all you can to get full health and strength. ... I hope that you will do this for me. . . ." Before the gathering in his study the President again turned to the retiring Secretary, again insisted with the enthusiasm of friendship that to Mr. Woodin was due all credit for bringing the U. S. safely through the financial difficulties since last March. Although those present were well aware that the President had himself shouldered the task of maintaining public confidence, no one begrudged the tribute, for it was a sentimental occasion...