Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent threats and inducements of Hit ler's velvet-voiced diplomat. Ambassador Franz von Papen, had failed to impress Turkey's astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey...
Grisolia. During October U. S. Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall had entertained two batches of Latin-American military missions, taken them on tours of arsenals and munitions plants, shown them U. S. equipment at work or in blueprints, endeavored to impress them with...
...featured speaker of the evening, but the talk by Arthur N. Holcombe '06, chairman of the Government Department, maintaining that "the third term tradition should not be interpreted as making an experienced statesman ineligible for a third successive term at a time of national crisis," seemed to impress the crowd as much as Grady's denunciations of the Republican candidate...
...last May, enough U. S. citizens to impress any politician were actively worried about two related problems: 1) the increase in their taxes, 2) the steady increase in the national debt after all the U. S. Government's tax collections. But when Hitler pushed back the U. S. frontier from the Rhine to the English Channel, these problems were swept aside by a single burning demand-Total Defense. To emergency-conscious U. S. citizens, the job presented itself as one of planes, tanks, guns, not their cost. But to businessmen and economists, one question remained: how to finance Total...
After paying tribute to the democratic practice of petitioning, the editorial says of the noted History 1 montor, "He has a right to his opinion, of course, as an American citizen. But he has no more right to impress his opinions on the student body, or any part of it, and indeed, not as much, as the students have to voice their views by the most direct, orderly and effective method at their command...