Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dynamic forces are at work. The recent rioting of Alpine troops is a straw in the wind. The regular army never made a secret of the fact that it did not relish its task. More quiet cursing and derogation of Mussolini is heard in the streets of Rome, Milan and Salerno. The troops in the field are spread out, discontented, badly supported by communications, and strategically exposed to serious defeats. Any spark from a number of sources may kindle the flame, and there are as many gusts of sentiment ready to nourish...
Georgia's red-suspendered Governor Eugene Talmadge was spending a quiet New Year's Day at home when he was called to the telephone. Voice: Hello, Gene. Is this 1-9-3-6? Governor: No, this is 7-3-1-2. Voice: You damn fool, look at the calendar...
...Times' principal competitor is the Herald Tribune whose financial section is edited by C. (for Charles) Normal Stabler, a quiet, scholarly Swarthmon graduate (Class of 1923). For smart layout and able writing the Herald Tribune financial section ranks ahead of every other in the U. S. Editor Stabler will celebrate his 35th birthday next week on a Caribbean cruise to recover from the strain of putting out the Herald Tribune's annual review of 22 pages. Better publicized than his superior is brilliant Associate Financial Editor Edward H. Collins, whose Monday morning essays have as large a following...
...Robert P. (for Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery waits on a revival of heavy industry...
...eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the party along side of the Greenbackers and Populists. Yet today the movement claims 25,000,000 supporters and has even begun to organize clubs in that stronghold of conservation shrewdness--New England...