Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudest and busiest campaigner for his Party's cause is Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox. Last week, before a quiet audience in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, he had reached the point in his remarks in which he declared that New Dealers were no longer as interested in Karl Marx as in the Literary Digest poll. Shouted the Chicago Daily News Publisher: "The Administration . . . is no longer trying to reorganize America; it is just trying to get votes...
...declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet was not going to ask any action of the League Assembly. "The era of national wars is fast disappearing!" cried...
General Dill soon found there was more in his job than fighting Arabs when he was called upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it could be used as a barracks, complained bitterly to U. S. Consul General George Wadsworth at Jerusalem. Said General Dill, promptly putting the matter straight: "There has been a mistake.We only want the school playground to pitch our tents...
...quiet orderly meeting of about 50 charter members, the Harvard Unit of the Massachusetts Landon-Knox Republican College Club was officially organized last night in the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House. David J. Davidson '37 represented the National Republican Committee, while Ira A. Watson '37 acted as temporary chairman at the request of the Republican State Committee...
...Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor, and the irrepressible love of fun that made Amy Lowell what...