Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the President of the U. S. considered it advisable to rouse reporters in the middle of the night, to say something which the world has every reason to take for granted, was not last week quite so remarkable as it might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week Nazification of Vienna's State Opera House left Composer Offenbach's lone opera on the shelf of verboten masterpieces. Reason: Composer Offenbach was a Jew. But yesterday's operetta-loving Vienna would have been a very different place without Composer Offenbach's influence. It was Composer Offenbach who invented and introduced to Vienna the kind of operetta that helped make Vienna famous...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident...
Every man who ever fumed about the phone bill had reason last week to be pleased. Every man accustomed to getting $9 a share in annual dividends on his American Telephone & Telegraph Co. common stock had reason to be anxious. For, in the most far-reaching and drastic report of its kind ever submitted to Congress, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker recommended that telephone rates be cut 25%, and that FCC be given more absolute control over A. T. & T. than any Government agency has ever held over any U. S. industry except in time...
...trade association and nothing else. The radio industry is afflicted with various forms of static-incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents-but Mr. Ethridge's chief duty will be using his charming Southern accent to reason Mr. McNinch away from some of his notions. Reports that he was going to censor all radio material to prevent such celebrated slips as the affair Mae West, he implied, were ridiculous. He will take no salary. When Radio really finds a Tsar, he will gracefully step aside...