Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park with his wife and two daughters (Tanis, 17, and Marcia, n), is amiable with friends in spite of his intellectual snobbishness, is shy, cynical and inclined to be inarticulate in company. His vocabulary sometimes exceeds his ability to express himself. Senators felt obliged to ask him what he meant by: "Chance has substituted itself for the anthropomorphic interpretation of history as a casual sequence." Columbia & Campaign. Not his personal characteristics but his social ideas were what made Dr. Tugwell an issue with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted...
...letter: "Reputable investigators seeking to establish correctly the Roosevelt genealogy are forced to the conclusion that the President's forbears were Dutch Jews by the original name of Rosenfeld, inasmuch as they can find no trace of the Roosevelts in the vital statistics of Holland. This is not meant to disparage the President or his forbears. It is mentioned to possibly explain the present Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary leaning toward Hebrews...
...That meant Europe had decided to scrap public conferences for the summer in favor of private conferences. Two of sensational interest were immediately announced. In Chancellor Adolf Hitler's entourage at Berlin it was authoritatively said that he would soon confer with Premier Benito Mussolini; and Prime Minister James Ramsay McDonald announced that M. Barthou had accepted an invitation to confer with him. The Italians also invited M. Barthou to confer with Senor Mussolini...
That Delphic tip by the devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...
...private bankers the change this week will cause hardly a ripple in day-to-day routine. But to securities affiliates of big banks and their officers and employes, the law meant rough readjustments. Chase Corp., City Co. and Guaranty Co. will be liquidated, their personnel cast adrift. Chase lately arranged to transfer what little remains of its securities organization to First of Boston Corp., divorced affiliate of Boston's First National Bank. Many of the old executives who went to Chase with its purchase of Harris, Forbes in 1930 have already departed to form their own firm. Dissolution...