Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists or other radicals had sown Manila with explosives...
...making profits is to pay French workers the "higher" wages they 'have won in "cheaper" money; 3) successive French regimes have operated with such enormous deficits in the last few years that .to cheapen the money in which this load of debt is owed is as good an idea in Paris as it has proved to be in Washington, London and Tokyo; 4) although there was still last week a 57% gold cover behind the French franc, whereas the legal requirement was only 35%, successive "flights from the" have reduced the Paris store of gold to a point...
...Foreign Office. United Press reported: "Edward's invitation was extended without the Government's knowledge. . . . Perplexed British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics for negotiation with Turkey presently. Likewise they regard the idea of preparing a new Mediterranean Pact now as most inopportune. . . . A simple invitation by King Edward has upset the British Foreign Office...
Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
...York Stock Exchange ever since the nation's first market place began to feel the Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought & paid for, seemed to many an oldster on the Floor to be no less shocking...