Word: pleases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's...
The White House was kept informed on the bill's progress but President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers...
The frantic pleas of national defense urged by such jingoes as Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no secure factual foundation. Most naval strategists recognize that the United States is practically impregnable. Successful Japanese action in the New World is predicated on a naval force of such colossal proportions that no...
France's departure from the gold standard will bring further instability in the foreign exchange market, and probably increase the number of players in the game of blind man's buff, now limited to secretly-operated committees in America and England. Foreign trade will dry up into an even smaller...
Of the eight persons jailed for complicity in the eternal ramifications of the Stavisky case (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.), none attracted greater sympathy than Arlette Stavisky, because of her beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of...