Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something to say...
...gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing I can say...
...these millions of voters the hope is nurtured that the franc, which sank as low as 2? in 1926, may rise further than its present value of 4?, perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into U. S. terms would be to say that a man who owned bonds worth $100,000 before the War now finds them worth $20,000 and hopes that they may rise to $50,000. Few U. S. statesmen would dare to say, in such circumstances, to one-sixth of the electorate: "Give up hope! Hereafter $20,000 will...
Hopes v. Speculators. To the 6,000,000 hope-against-hopers Banker Emile Moreau can say only, first that their hopes are too extravagant ever to be realized, and second that the Bank of France has not sufficient resources to go on protecting the franc against foreign speculators, unless there is applied that potent check to speculation, a law establishing the currency on a gold basis...
Troops marching under the banner of the Nanking Nationalist Government quietly occupied Peking, last week, but in such curious fashion that no man could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...