Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons does Olympian self-satisfaction sit more easily than on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, chill, patrician Arthur Neville Chamberlain, who has given Britain three budget surpluses in succession. That for 1934-35 helped win for the Conservative Party last year's British general elections. Last week, as fiscal 1935-36 closed, Chancellor Chamberlain let it be known that he had underestimated the surplus by two-thirds, thus doing his bit to reconcile Britons to a walloping rearmament program and a possible budget deficit for 1936-37. Instead of ?5,610,000 ($28,050,000), the 1935-36 surplus...
...took the oath of office, he was a national hope. A month later he was a national hero. He had won the heart of a frightened nation by the height at which he held his head, the breadth to which his smile expanded, by self-confidence that seemed almost Olympian. Seldom since then had his self-confidence failed him. It enabled him to propose and get Congress to approve frank experiments. It gave him courage to ask Congress for sums of money that no other peacetime President had ever dared to ask. It made it easy for him to make...
...This Olympian attitude reduced to the status of gutter-yappers against His Majesty's Government such newsorgans as London's Liberal Star, which railed against the Prime Minister next day: "The grand old woman of British politics, Stanley Baldwin, passed through an hour of humiliation in Commons debate which most Englishmen would give a Premiership to avoid...
...even Joe Kennedy with his Olympian police powers cannot go forth within his precinct and command companies to borrow money that they do not need. All he can do, as he has done, is to make it easy for the honest. He has stumped the land proclaiming his credo: "No honest business need fear the SEC." He has been not only a good policeman, but also a polite one, insisting that all SEC subordinates be courteous and cooperative. Doing business is infinitely more difficult than before the New Deal but bankers now know that it can be done...
...aboard Milwaukee Road, ten forty-five, The Olympian for Milwaukee, La Crosse, Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Gallatin Gateway, Three Forks, Butte, Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma. . . . Train is now ready on Track 15. ... The Olympian. . . . ALL ABOARD...