Word: laments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, John William Davis, Owen D. Young, William Green, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Samuel Insull, Frank Billings Kellogg, Thomas William Lament-these and 48 other potent names were the weapons picked up last week by President Hoover to beat back the Senate's newest advance upon the U. S. Treasury...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...Depression was young and newsy, Cabinet members heartily took their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While it is impossible to forecast...
...private finance. Last week the rare honor was again bestowed. The recipient, known long in advance, was Seymour Parker Gilbert, 38, onetime (1924-30) Agent General for German Reparations payments, a lawyer by profession. Ever since he worked with Banker Morgan and Morgan-Partner Thomas William Lament at the Paris Conference of 1929 which drew up the (Owen D.) Young Plan, a Morgan-partnership for Lawyer Gilbert has been rumored. It comes as capstone to an already brilliant career...
Brisk and businesslike was the annual report issued by Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament last week. Addressed neither to the President-to whom the department is dear-nor the Congress, it was the last of the nine reporting departments to make its statement. Secretary Lament wasted no time in probing the causes of the Depression, made instead the following observations...