Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Powerfully built, determined of mien, Tycoon St. Davids entered the meeting room early, ignored his place at the Directors' table, aggressively took a seat in the second row of chairs allotted to debenture stockholders. After a time the other directors entered in a body, among them towering Tycoon Kylsant...
France complained of general tariff increases. Ambassador Claudel declared the situation to "justify discontent, the manifestations of which are becoming more and more lively." He pointed out that French citizens bought an average of $6.39 worth of U. S. goods each year, whereas each U. S. citizen bought only $1.32...
Vigilant patriots last week pointed with pride to two news items recounting their country's advancement in transportation. Each item mentioned a new "biggest." They were:
While troops were reported massing last week on both sides of the Sino-Russo boundary, the Soviet Government signified it would do its utmost to prevent their clashing, despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik...
(2 of 3) a "gesture," replied that as a "gesture" he thought it would be "very weak." Kentucky's Senator Barkley (Democrat) pointed out that it was "no gesture" to reduce tariff on "something that does not matter while increasing it on things that do." Nevertheless, foreign countries must reduce...