Word: ire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped to get off fresh instructions to the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo soon. Meanwhile capable Joe Grew pushed on with the job which calls to a diplomat when he is not sure how far his chiefs want him to go. He did his best to check the ire of mounting tempers and to clear the way for intelligent, thoughtful negotiation. Out of the garnered wisdom of 28 years' diplomatic experience Ambassador Grew said, shortly after his arrival in Tokyo two years ago: "For statesmanship and for diplomacy there can be no more important duty than to smooth...
...York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags flying so that it was hours before anyone knew that Rainbow had won the series. Last week, when Skipper Sopwith's ire had cooled a little, he explained his views...
Bank for International Settlements, accused Germany of breaking the financial treaties of The Hague and of Lausanne. London banking ire crystallized in the Times which flayed Germany's "direct breach of good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into...
...Teagle." What the Bond Club always enjoys most are the house advertisements, appearing in exactly the same positions as in Bawl Street's prototype: "We Maintain the Same Unlisted Trading Service That Once Upon a Time Maintained Us"-Bristol & Willett. "We Fiddle with U. S. Government Notes-Private Ire From Washington"- Boettcher-Newton & Co., "52 Back-to-the-Wall St." "Dillinger, Read & Co." "Metal Specialists-Ingot We Trust"- Harris & Vose. "All we know is what we read in the papers. ... If you don't believe it, send for a copy of our United Aircraft letter to Senators...
...Depression, the fear of a Nazi Mittel Europs, the agitation of Communists and the nagging of Royalists, the national ire aroused by the scandal, may give Doumergue a year or so. But the cards are stacked against him; only let France catch its breath and a new scandal, a blunder in judgment, will find a host of Deputies ready for a new "calculation" to form a new Cabinet, and another, and another. Only when France gives her Premier the club of Dissolution will the Deputies coalesce into two great parties, one to criticize and one to lead--to formulate...