Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Secretary Hudson, badgered by the press and politicians, was once reported on the point of resigning. The Prime Minister, tranquil as ever, appeared before Parliament to explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...
...that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish Generals whom he accompanied on a trip to Rome, become the leading figure of the Falangists. Ardently pro-Nazi, contemptuous of conservatives who see no point in scaring off possible British financial aid, he has boasted that Gibraltar would soon be returned to Spain, was more in evidence at receptions for Count Ciano than was General Franco...
...this same week business' most sensitive barometer-the stockmarket as mirrored in the Dow-Jones industrial averages-enthusiastic over prospects for the second half of 1939, dashed off a sensational 6.1-point rise, reached its highest point since March (144.7 against 152.3 then). For the first week in six months the New York Stock Exchange had four 1,000,000 share days. All listed shares rose some two billions...
...than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever. In 1936, still immune, he nearly caused a diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference...
...down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance. We have been accused of monopoly, but a better term is unity." After a price war, Banker Larkins saw the point...