Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their original bases at Trieste, Udine, Bolzano, from...
With pained aplomb the leading yarn makers of the Empire held a quiet mass meeting last week in Manchester. They had given His Majesty's Government sleepless nights by closing their mills, throwing 50,000 of the King's subjects out of work (TIME, Aug. 13). This was their decorous way of hinting that the British Embassy in Berlin had better get busy. They had shipped £1,500,000 worth of yarn to Germany in all good faith. They had not been paid, as bland German importers pointed out that the Reichsbank had blocked all such transfers to conserve...
...These changes were Japan's price for not seizing Peiping. The new tariffs upped rates sharply against the leading exports to China from the U. S., Britain and Russia, at the same time cutting rates on the chief exports to China from Japan. To keep all this as quiet as possible, Chinese censors were ordered to obstruct and discourage white correspondents in their cabling of the story...
...take cotton men the full 20 minutes of quiet granted by exchanges to take in the cotton situation. For the past few years the world has used about 14,000,000 bales of U. S. cotton annually- 6,000,000 bales within the U. S.. 8,000,000 bales abroad. Successive bumper crops over a long period piled up a surplus of U. S. cotton which on Aug. 1 stood at 11,000,000 bales. The small 1934 crop would reduce this carryover to some 6,000,000 bales, almost normal. There would be nothing like a shortage...
...defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works its ancient way out, knowing No fulness but to live, strongly to live. . . . Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage...