Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Hungary caused a mild flurry at the State Department by making a token payment of $9,826.16 (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week Hungary produced a more general Washington flurry when her Minister John Pelenyi made public the terms of a new proposal he had submitted to the State and Treasury Departments, proposal was that Hungary reduce the original $1,685,000 debt by subtracting the $478,000 it has already paid, pay the remaining $1,207,000 in $39,000 non-interest bearing annual installments over a period of 30 years...
...Italian good will flight had been a mild fiasco. To avoid appearing Fascist-minded, the Brazilian Government gave the fliers a cool welcome. Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires Critica, chief anti-Fascist organ of the Argentine press, decried the flight so bitterly that Argentina was omitted from the itinerary...
Health Minister Wauters had hardly refuted this accusation when a Rexist Deputy swaggered up to Belgium's present namby-pamby Premier Paul Emile Janson, and offered him a sealed envelope supposedly containing evidence for further charges against Wauters. At this new example of fascism turned smearism, the mild Premier for once showed spunk. "Did you, sir, steal these?" he shrilled. "And where?" Then he treated the Chamber to a denunciation of Rexist tactics, dramatically returned the unopened envelope to its purveyor...
...mild-mannered, lofty-minded Anglican is Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, 68-brother of Viscount Cecil and of the Bishop of Exeter-for 26 years an M. P. for Oxford University, now provost of Eton. Living in a stratosphere of piety, Lord Hugh regards the Established Church as above and apart from England's Protestant sects. "Scandalous"' it was, to him, when some years ago the Bishop of Liverpool announced that he would let Unitarians be guest preachers in his cathedral. Last week in London, in a speech before the Assembly of the Church of England, Churchman Cecil...
...Democrats, charged their Administration with spending money to ridicule them. The offender was the WPA's Federal Theatre production about slum clearance, ". . . one third of a nation'' (TIME, Jan. 31). The offense was casting Senators Andrews of Florida, Byrd of Virginia and Tydings of Maryland as mild critics of the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill. The Senators complained that their impersonators on the stage called forth boos & hisses. As their remarks came straight out of the Congressional Record, they admitted they had not been misquoted, but insisted they were not quoted fairly. In the play Byrd and Tydings...