Word: helm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home, The pound being where it is, can bearded Montagu Collet Norman, eleven times Governor of the Bank of England (TIME, May 4), continue to hold that helm? Mr. Norman was strangely in Canada just before the pound was taken off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). He returned secretively to London via Liverpool last week, slipping off the S. S. Duchess of Bedford on a special tender, dashing in a closed car to his train, commencing to dictate rapidly...
London by this time had heard impressive rumors that Mr. Norman will soon be succeeded as Governor by that director of the Bank of England who was seemingly closest to the actual helm in the crisis fortnight ago, Sir Josiah Stamp, grizzled chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway...
...think we need to worry about the Treasury as long as Uncle Andy is at the helm. He knows his business and knows it well. Until after we've passed the Presidential election and other disturbing factors we should steer clear of tax legislation...
...Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender, but in a maternal way." Nevertheless the audience was enthusiastic, applauded (mostly for Toscanini) a full ten minutes...
...Russia and all the capitalist world, too, heard the voice of STALIN fortnight ago ordering alterations in Communism's course (TIME. July 13). Last week the Soviet ship of state trimmed sheets and shifted helm, did its best to make the suggestions of Skipper Josef Stalin law. Editors in foreign countries commenting on the speed with which any hints from Steel Man Stalin are acted on, remembered last week that practically every detail of what is already known as Stalin's New Policy (restoration of unequal wages, making peace with bourgeois technicians, etc., etc.) has long been advocated...