Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
...Deputy Léon Blum who cried: "Rather than grant such powers, I would prefer that this country had a king!" No less than six French Premiers who have asked for "full powers" were fought on this issue by MM. Blum & Auriol. In 1934 they accused that mild political tabby Premier Gaston ''Papa" Doumergue, who died last week (see p. 28), of asking for full powers ''as the opening wedge to Fascist Dictatorship!" Last week when Orator Blum asked exactly these powers for his Government he cried: "We are backed by the masses of this country...
...effect of the Scopes trial was to instill a burning determination to combat ignorance and bigotry in a wispy, grey, mild-mannered man named Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld. Born 56 years ago in Strasbourg, which was then German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific...
...Dress in old, preferably baggy, clothes and wait patiently in stateroom for bugle. Upon hearing bugle, walk, do not run, to dining room where food will be served. Please do not annoy stewards with pleasantries, mild or otherwise; they have to get up at four-thirty...
Personnel director of Ford Motor Co., as well as head Of its company police (known as "servicemen") is Henry H. Bennett. This master of tough men occupies a special place in the esteem of mild Henry Ford, perhaps because he has for years been responsible for protecting the Ford grandchildren from kidnapping of which the senior Ford is mortally afraid. One of Mr. Bennett's privileges is that he, almost alone of Ford lieutenants can speak to the press in his own name. Last week Mr. Bennett declared...