Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oyster Bay, L. I., Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 48, confirmed the announcement he would join the publishing firm of Doubleday, Doran & Co., explained he was now satisfied to lead a quiet life. Said he: "I am a grandfather now, and it is time I settled down. . . . The publishing business is a form of teaching, after...
...performances in The Return of Peter Grimm are good and its general tone, despite the camera's inability to produce the incorporeal except in smeared dissolves, has the quiet literate authority that Producer Kenneth Macgowan usually gets into his output...
...Breathing spell" became the political catchphrase of the day. Delighted with the country's enthusiasm, President Roosevelt told newshawks at Hyde Park: "All I tried to do was to quiet the nerves of some of the boys." No less pleased was Publisher Howard who, before sailing from San Francisco, in effect, telegraphed the President as follows: "Your letter was fine. The story certainly went over...
...peanuts and his old boss's son, Henry Agard Wallace, sat in the Secretary's office. Last week John B. Hutson was given AAA control over a fifth crop?the common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land had at him as never before in his quiet respectable 45 years. Among the first communications that came before him was the following: "We, the undersigned men and women, American citizens living on our own land in West Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N. J., conscious of our American heritage and determined to preserve it, hereby solemnly resolve...
...utilitarian who had no doubt what he should do last week was Samuel Ferguson, chairman of independent Hartford Electric Light Co. and its affiliate Connecticut Power Co.* This quiet, genial Yankee has never hobnobbed with holding companies but his two small utilities did have ten-year-old interstate connections with power companies in Massachusetts and New York. Few hours before the Holding Company Bill became law, Chairman Ferguson quietly ordered out a crew of linemen who snipped all the company's interstate lines at the border, pulled the wires off the towers. "Too bad we had to do this," declared...