Word: portent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape the tax penalty on undistributed profits. Standard of New Jersey declared a 75? extra which amounted to $10,000,000, Standard of Indiana a $1 extra footing up to more than...
...bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead 50? to $15.25 per ton-a significant portent of good autumn steel news...
...Eden this week left this point unsettled but he gave most of his time to an ingratiating sales talk for the League of Nations. Exclaiming sorrowfully that "eighteen years after the war to end war, we find ourselves confronted with the same problems dreadfully similar in character and portent to those before 1914," he went on to point the Conservative moral that "whichever course events may take, one element which appears essential for every course is that Great Britain must be strong...
...remainder of the long line waited while King and Baron had a conversation of some minutes in fluent German. After the whole line had finally passed into the next room, His Majesty joined Baron von Neurath for a much longer conversation. The German Press was exuberant at this portent, while that of France remained grimly silent on King Edward's much-observed gesture. Of British statesmen not in the pro-German camp, none was more sorely troubled than Home Secretary Sir John Simon, who as Foreign Secretary was definitely pro-French. The prestige of Sir John, when his great...
...this country attracted more of those men and women whose upbringing and education best fit them for public office. . . . It is . . . in order to applaud a young man like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. . . . and to see in his ambition to emulate the example of his illustrious grandfather a portent of brighter days. For Mr. Lodge, we believe, is of the kind of stuff to leaven the lump of mediocrity that burdens our national councils...