Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Intent on furthering his economic war, Eamon de Valera had lengthy conferences last week with the six Free State commissioners who regulate Irish currency. Rumors would not be denied that they were discussing the possibility of establishing a separate decimal Irish currency based on the dollar instead of the pound, a move sure to be popular with school children, bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York...
...sense" but. . . . Chancellor von Papen, recently suspected of an intent to place the Free State of Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...
Shoulder to Shoulder? Prospects at Geneva, according to French sources close to the Cabinet, were for a joint Franco-British declaration of intent to reduce arms expenditures by from 5% to 10%, the hope being that if Mr. MacDonald and M. Herriot thus pledged themselves other nations might follow...
...spite of the book's serious-minded intent, many of its entries will seem ludicrous to serious-minded Americans. Contributor Walter Prichard Eaton, described in the blurb prefacing his article on "The Scenery of the United States" as "an artist who paints with words," paints the following unforgettable scene: "From the western slopes of the Appalachian chain, the water drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing...
...things are not so simple for the others. Clune's wife, Kathy, with whom Leda makes great friends, is half crazy with unsatisfied love of him; but he wants only Leda. Failing to get her he sets off to the War with suicidal intent. To hold him back, for Kathy as well as for herself, Leda gives herself to him, but he goes to War just the same. When she bears a child Blount, who is impotent, thinks it is his. Leda does not undeceive him. He has grown more & more powerful, more & more self-assured during Wartime politics...