Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Gloucester, whose tour of Australia last year was considered in the Dominion a hint that King George would like to appoint him its Governor General, was passed over last week when His Majesty finally acted on the advice of Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons...
...conference between the Senate and the House for final adjustment, and there are some others that the President would like to see action upon. . . . Under the circumstances I feel we will be fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint was the fact that President Roosevelt wants to get away to address on Aug. 23 the Young Democrats of America convening in Milwaukee, does not want to leave Congress in session to nip at his fast-flying political heels. It was up to Congress, therefore, to put on its best burst...
...that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy intellectual and artistic climate in which his projected characters would live...
When President Roosevelt picked his five SECommissioners, he found that the law did not provide for his designating one as chairman. Therefore he showed his personal preference by naming Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy for the longest term. The Commissioners took the hint, elected Mr. Kennedy chairman. But they must have done so with some misgivings. Chairman Kennedy was no New Dealer. He was not even a businessman. He was a Wall Street financier and a skillful practitioner of much that the New Deal deplored. During the 1920's he had been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals...
...later Presidential Secretary Stephen Early called newshawks in, and told them very impressively that a whopping story was about to break at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. What was it? He would not even hint. All he would say was that the President had written a letter to a member of Congress. With this valuable bit of information the Press was left until Representative Sam Hill of Washington made public a letter he had received from the White House...