Word: quietness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California pioneer who became a rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...
...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...
...Chicago only six of the 20 major hotels have avoided receivership or bankruptcy since Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week...
...QUIET FLOWS THE DON-Mikhail Sholokhov-Knopf...
What the late great Tolstoy's War and Peace did for old Russia, And Quiet Flows the Don attempts for new. Not nearly as long (755 pp.) as Tolstoy's epic. Author Sholokhov's novel is big enough to house comfortably over 50 principal characters. More typical of the traditional Russian novel than the Sovietized product, And Quiet Flows the Don hymns no paean to the Five Year Plan. Its ponderously simple narrative follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks from peace to war to revolution, leaves them in the midst of civil strife. Though...