Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 49, married, father of two, Senator McCulloch resides at Canton, is frequently likened by sentimentalists to President William McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. For six years (1915-21) Senator McCulloch served in the House. This year he has been chairman of the State Utilities Commission. Quiet in manner, personable in looks, regular in his Republicanism, Senator McCulloch was chosen on a pledge to support "Hoover policies" in the Senate...
Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...many months the Eastern consolidation struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central; behind the second sits energetic Daniel Willard of the B. & O.; behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master...
...then returned to clean up the greatest amount of work which brokerage houses have ever had in so short a time. In the hurly-burly many an error had been made. The clerks had to discover them, rectify them. But in the Stock Exchange Friday and Saturday there was quiet...
Last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children heaped bitter denunciation on the pragmatic Harvard Athletic Association. Said the Society: "We will make a quiet appeal to the . . . Association to bring this practice to an end. ... If police arrested the boys they would not be locked in cells. Children have certain rights which older people do not have...