Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later on, when Major General Johnson Hagood, retired, testifying before the House Committee, again lamented the absence of a clear statement of naval policy, Chairman Vinson interrupted with a reply that to some extent at least served to quiet fears that the Navy was to be used to help England police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection...
...Steel Corp. and the general staff of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee went through the motions of negotiating a new contract- the most important single labor contract in the U. S. The immediate destinies of Big Steel's 200,000 employes had already been settled in quiet, personal chats between Myron C. Taylor and John L. Lewis. And what Messrs. Taylor & Lewis decided will probably go for the other 300,000 steelworkers now covered by C. I. O. contracts...
...winter-holiday trippers, who have been pouring into Mexico over the new Pan-American highway in increasing numbers, were inclined to regard this as a slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail...
...gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
Nazi activity in Austria is a crime. In Vienna there was, however, a quiet understanding which served as a kind of life insurance for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from...