Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Williamson, quiet son of a clergy man, took his first job in Dayton as teacher of public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster...
...corporations-has repeatedly-failed to arouse major excitement for the simple reason that only alarmists have bothered to question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove...
Finally last week the delegates achieved sufficient unity to issue a joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would...
...federal army which took Vera Cruz ?and appeared to have squelched the revolution south of Mexico City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable for a few residents on the Boston shore to insist that they be supplied with a rural park at their back doors. Great cities cannot provide secluded and quiet groves to residents of congested centers...