Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphatically President Machado was still Dictator. Only in the person of crisp, calm, young U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles did terrified Cubans see hope of reviving their paralyzed capital. President Roosevelt had sent Mr. Welles to Havana to "mediate" when Machado tyranny became too obvious (TIME, May 15). He was known to be conferring with members of all parties. Army officers had sought...
...wholly with an eye to the dollar's internal value. "There are two sorts of stability," declared the McKenna review, "stability in internal purchasing power over other commodities and services, and in external purchasing power over other currency units. Notwithstanding the appalling experiences of recent years and their obvious association with the internal situation, it is the habit to think in terms of the second almost to the total exclusion of the first. . . . We regard as one of the major benefits of the crisis-for even a major crisis has some good results-that a statesman of Mr. Roosevelt...
...Nicaraguans were killed by the explosion, four were injured by stray bullets Political enemies of the President started rumors that "most of the Government's ammunition has been destroyed- an obvious incitement to revolution. Announcing that it was "not ... a mere accident," President Sacasa grimly ordered in from outlying districts 500 Nicaraguan troops who brought with them plenty of ammunition...
...code might better have been labeled one of etiquet instead of ethics. One of its two genuinely ethical precepts is pointed, obvious. The A. K. C. recognizes that not all dog exhibitors are sportsmen Some are not above tampering with judges If that is attempted the judge should report at once to the Club, which promises drastic punishment...
...ancestral seat. The 14th Sir Nigel takes Stephen's daughter with him. For Author Hutchinson, an ounce of moralizing is worth a pound of narration. Beginning as a valid study in character degeneration, The Soft Spot becomes steadily more tiresome by its heavy underscoring of the obvious...