Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounds like the best laugh story of the year," chimed in General MacArthur from Washington...
...rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress for tea. At 47 her dark hair is greying, the lines of her firm jaw broadening, but her blue-grey eyes have lost not a spark of their vitality and fervor...
...Giggles" Gates got his nickname from his cheery, infectious laugh. Equally famed was his powerful voice. He never used a megaphone when docking his ship, and many a sailor used to say no ship needed a foghorn so long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine...
Thus Benito Mussolini, for the time being, is the President from Agriculture, the President from Banking, the President from Metallurgy, etc. To his enemies, naturally, the Corporative State is therefore just Benito Mussolini and a laugh. To the Italian people it is a new world of thought grooves and action grooves along which they must move...
...central bank, and no inflationary moves with silver. Bill is very sore, blasting New Deal right and left. . . . Borah said confidentially that his private information was the Roosevelt speech to bankers was window-dressing; he claims 'Roosevelt has sold out to the money power.' Bankers here generally laugh at the Roosevelt speech, because they are stuffed with money and Government paper and are trying every way to make loans...