Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he had a story to tell, he gave it to newspapermen succinctly, clearly, with a photographic eye for detail and colorful incident. More than that, he was an authentic, native character. When he had done something worth while he smiled for photographers. Once, when there was no particular reason for taking his picture, he was asked to smile. As Calvin Coolidge might have, he asked: "At what...
Little by little the number of refugees was being whittled down, but not fast enough to suit the French Government, which last week announced that it had spent $20,000,000 so far on the care and feeding of the Spanish refugees. In that expense lies, incidentally, the reason why France has been reluctant to return to Generalissimo Franco the $200,000,000 in gold which the former Republican Government left in French banks. The French have let it be known that they expect the Spanish refugee problem to be solved by September in one way or another...
...respects to the sentimental Italian claims just long enough to deny them: Italian claims are based either on "bad faith" or "extreme ignorance." Of the three alleged Italian builders of Suez he said: 1) Negrelli was not an Italian but an Austrian. He never worked on the Canal. The reason: a year before Canal digging started, Negrelli died. 2) Paleocapa refused a job at Suez. The reason: he had gone blind. 3) Torelli did not become interested in Suez until the Canal was almost finished. Flatly the Suez directors turned Italy down...
Peaches-&-cream Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll asked Paramount a favor: a change of title for her new film (Are Husbands Necessary?). Reason: she is getting a divorce from her husband, Mayfairite Captain Philip Astley...
...years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred. Far more conveniently situated to serve mid-continent railroad customers are the inland industrial centres which sprang up in the following decades. But last week, Baldwin's 11,000 stockholders had reason to feel lucky that Matthias Baldwin set up shop on tidewater hard-by naval shipyards. They were shown their luck when Baldwin reported its unfilled orders...