Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Boom was in the air President Roosevelt saw about a half dozen businessmen. Since the turn of this year he has talked with more than 100. The White House calling list may not be a very reliable index of business activity but it is-at the moment at least-a sensitive index of business sentiment. For the eagerness of businessmen to see the President, and more particularly the President's willingness to see them, could reflect only profound concern over the business outlook-on both sides...
...ceremony, but "unique" is a young woman of advanced ideas. She not only peeked at her own wedding through a carved grill but afterward posed for her photograph as Queen, a shocking breach of Moslem custom, doubly shocking because Her Majesty not only was photographed but posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than...
...Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past...
...TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) was followed immediately by the setting up in Rumania of a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic regime unfriendly to France. When Premier Stoyadinovich sounded off, the Delbos journey appeared to have been almost a total loss. However, M. Delbos' worries were at the moment closer home. His Government had fallen...
Most salable success secret in the U. S. at the moment is speech improvement. Last week Chicago's Better-Speech Institute of America gave evidence of the profitableness of this industry...