Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer business. He showed that while Wexler was reporting an income of $8,000 and paying a tax of $10.76. he was living royally off the profits of his breweries, was investing large sums in hotel ventures. By the time Prosecutor Dewey was through with him Wexler was hollow-eyed, limp, twitchy...
...included not only victory, when the Bratianu Premier wished to continue in power, but also defeat and the election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...
...last week have any considerable "sound money" jitters become noticeable. First Barney Baruch, adviser extraordinary to the New Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones a sombre, if hollow, denunciation of a "currency of fluctuating value," while the New England Council points to a dire future if there is no stabilization of currency. No doubt we are in for a heavy salvo of such pronouncements, which will be as frantic and foreboding as they are uncomprehending...
Until last week no Great Power had troubled to attack the puppet "Regency" of hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi over what Japan calls the new state of Manchukuo...
...reactions to Rooseveltism in all parts of the country, Leonard J. Reid, Financial Editor of the London Daily Telegraph, gave Britons another picture: "Roosevelt is being criticized in the Eastern United States but he could speak to the whole country tomorrow and hold them in the hollow of his hand...