Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Augustus Lindbergh, whose island adjoins his off the coast of France, Dr. Alexis Carrel told a French newshawk: "I pray you, do not try to see him. Since the great misfortune and trial that befell him, Colonel Lindbergh has changed a great deal. He is hypersensitive and wants only quiet and to be forgotten. Do not harass him. He has suffered enough. Leave him alone...
...from 1,800 manufacturers. At the Manhattan office of the U. S. Treasury's Procurement Division, WPAdministrator Corrington Gill inspected long racks of garments including tuxedos and racy sports clothes (see cut). He announced that nothing "flashy" would be accepted, that WPA would buy about 1,000,000 quiet garments-durable overcoats and one-pants suits-ranging in price up to $25. Meanwhile, Mr. Gill rented warehouses in Manhattan, Baltimore, Chicago to store these gifts. Manufacturers of ladies' garments flocked after Mr. Gill to see what they could sell...
Fresh from his war coverage in Leftist Spain quiet, hard-working Vincent Sheean, Left-wing author & correspondent, fortnight ago hurried to Vienna to scout reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain...
...discovered, Author Daniels finished his trip disturbed, thoughtful, none too optimistic. The Civil War caused suffering in the South, he admits, but its chief injury was that it gave southerners an excuse for doing nothing. Despite lynchings,* he believes that Negroes and whites have lived together in relative quiet, decency and peace, and that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks only forbearance: Cato...
...Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news, no use for folding boats, surgical instruments, Union Jack and joined flagpole with which he had been provided...