Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospects of a steel strike amounted to little more than some loud bluster by William J. Spang, leader of Steel's "rank & file." But his first job was not to coerce steelmasters but to settle his factional feud with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers' old President Michael Tighe...
...Stresa? In London last February today's great effort for European peace was launched by His Majesty's Government and the new-dealing Premier of France, strapping, kinetic Pierre Etienne Flandin. To Adolf Hitler they sent an offer. If Der Führer would back up his loud professions of peace by four acts they offered him in exchange a major concession...
Change to Charm. The outward signs of that change are marked. The Senator was loud, rough, profane. He still is, by nature, but nowadays as he passes through the corridors of the Senate Office Building, he tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self...
When other methods seem to fail, President Roosevelt likes to send his lieutenants into the land to rally the sagging morale of U. S. businessmen with strong language. First it was Secretary of Commerce Roper, then Donald Richberg who tried to soothe the business jitters by loud strumming on silver-lined harps. Last week President Roosevelt selected as his newest goodwill ambassador Securities & Exchange Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy, dispatched him to Manhattan where business gloom is currently thickest. There in an address to 1,200 bankers, brokers and business executives at a luncheon of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kennedy...
...From Tokyo went loud diplomatic squeals...