Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...currency. But by the end of the week he had begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They got into the White House only on the promise that they would hush their inflation talk and stick to cotton. Day after their visit the President announced that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration would lend planters 10? per Ib. on unsold cotton, provided they agreed to reduce their 1934 crop 40%, their 1935 crop 25%. That was 1? per Ib. above the spot market price...
...attempted to dodge the issue by refusing to talk about it, and on the other, has deprecated the use of the striking right where it has been exercised. But now in the case of the coal codes, the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia have split away from the hush-hush guidance of John Lewis and have by militant action forced the question squarely before Washington. "Are unions going to be recognized...
...precarious hush of the truce between Japan and the Nanking Government (TIME, June 5), a small, discordant clamor was heard last week far to the north in Chahar Province. It was the private war of "Christian General" Feng Yuhsiang, ostensibly to drive the Japanese single-handed out of China's "lost provinces...
First disclosure was that Sir Joseph had paid not $5,000 hush money as many papers had guessed, but $60,000 to Mme Hahn. The Hahns settled in Dinard, France, and round pugnacious Harry J. Hahn set himself to studying the chemistry of paint. His new evidence...
...when students of the Royal Scientific College just across the street set up exuberant catcalls in which they persisted throughout the royal speech. While a translator rendered the King's English into French (and his French into English) blue-helmeted London bobbies chased the catcalling students, achieved a hush amid which snowy-polled Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald rose to keynote as President of the Conference...