Word: pompousity
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...suspense on conclusion of that Conference," reads Article III of Il Patto a Quattro, the signatories "reserve the right to re-examine these questions between themselves . . . with a view to insuring their solution through the appropriate channels." That Dictator Mussolini has no patience with and no confidence in pompous, teeming Conferences is a hard, pragmatic fact -of special importance as the World Economic Conference meets (see p. 16). In his speech to the Senate. Il Duce scored "sentimental fears" that...
...different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing was his real forte. At the age of 25 he founded the Financial Times, then bought The Sun. His greatest success was a weekly which with a flash of inspiration he called John Bull. Pudgy, pompous, curly-haired, Horatio Bottomley looked like John Bull. To millions of Britons he was John Bull. His editorial policies paralleled those of long-faced William Randolph Hearst: sensationalism, flaring headlines, ultranationalism. Again like Hearst, he kept a convenient goat to blame for everything: in his case...
...Street in the end ovades the law, or is gently rapped ever the knuckles, there is reason for feasting and merry-making. Enough that for a day or a month the House of Morgan will stand before the world shorn of its awful respectability, its soundness, its pompous righteousness. For awhile at least, the mighty will be on trial in a position exposed to the insinuations and questionings of the vulgar people with whose money he has been playing...
...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
Almost alone in preferring gold to paper as pocket currency for everyday use are Dutchmen. They like to jingle heavy guilders on each of which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...