Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that "they are men like...
...strength of that statement the franc rallied sharply at the beginning of this week, and stocks on the Bourse bounded up. Nevertheless, devaluation of the franc is implicit in any French New Deal. French foreign trade and, politically more important, French tourist trade have suffered woefully from devotion to gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably...
...think," boomed Vance Muse, "that I should stand in the presence of the Senate of the United States, in which I have implicit faith...
...President Charles Richard Gay of the New York Stock Exchange gathered about him a well-groomed, able staff and set forth upon goodwill missions through those large sections of the U. S. where Wall Street is seriously regarded as a prime filling station on the wide road to Hell. Implicit in most of his many speeches was the message that the New York Stock Exchange had received a new revelation of its public duty...
...teachers' oath laws in some twenty states have bombed out of their shelters thousands of such men and women. Led by a few who from the first have realized the dangers implicit in the law, teachers in schools and colleges are mobilizing a belated but sturdy and almost unanimous resistance. And everywhere they have won the support of the students in their institutions and the more sophisticated groups in their communities. The middle class begins to scent trouble...