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Word: hinting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading hostesses in the country, a woman highly connected and immensely rich. Her associations with a colored man became so marked that they were the talk of the West End.- One day the couple were caught in compromising circumstances. . . . The society woman has been given the hint to clear out of England for a couple of years, and the hint comes from a quarter which cannot be ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Omnibus of Scandal | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...bearded Dr. Hugo Eckener barked that proud announcement on Oct. 15, 1924 as he stepped from the gondola of the LZ-126 in the Navy's airship dock at Lakehurst, N. J. Neither his drill-sergeant bearing nor his snapping eyes gave hint of the ignominy in his mission: he was delivering the ship to the U. S. Navy from Friedrichshafen where his Zeppelin Co. had built it as a Reparations payment. Within the silvered hulk was a crew of stolid Germans, a mail cargo, a tabloid edition of Vossische Zeitung, 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: L. A. to Pasture | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...British Commonwealth will meet in Ottawa, July 21. Last week the House of Commons cheered Jim Thomas when he threatened that Great Britain will "take steps" to discipline the Free State by refusing to make any trade concessions to President de Valera at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference. A hint that "retaliatory tariffs" against Free State products might be levied brought fresh cheers. Debate on the Irish Question last week was on a purely emotional plane. Setting President de Valera aside, what can the Mother Country and her other Dominions do at Ottawa? Last week Stanley Baldwin, Conservative Leader, warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Irish Question & Ottawa | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Hint of Ham" While cities were begging for Federal aid and Henry Ford was preaching back-to-the-soil, Congress was grappling doggedly with the question of relief legislation. Before the House Ways & Means Committee lay Speaker Garner's three-pronged proposal to pitchfork the country up to better times: 1) a billion dollars for the R. F. C. to loan to all-comers; 2) a hundred million of what he called "mercy money" for the President to give away; 3) about a billion and a quarter's worth of public works. Speaker Garner appeared before the committee to declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mayors, Misery & Money | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...reported. In Manhattan the protective committee, headed by Bainbridge Colby and with Samuel Untermeyer as counsel, passed a resolution asking the Swedish authorities to demand a cash settlement from Kreuger's U. S. bankers before a re-organization of either Kreuger & Toll or International Match. The committee continued to hint it would sue the U. S. bankers for misrepresentation, ask them to rescind the sale of Kreuger & Toll bonds. In Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match was still sound were dismayed last week when the company was granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kreuger Tangibles | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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