Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious days of the Hoover Moratorium, Germany's financial crisis and the first emergency credit for Britain, the House of Morgan, France's bank in the U. S., was as silent as the tomb of Tutankhamen. Observers noted how quickly the name of Morgan popped into the headlines now that there was no question of conflicting with French policies. Morgan headed the list of 110 U. S. banks which underwrote the U. S. half of the loan. Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, flew to Paris and arranged details of the other $200,000,000 with...
...pyramided companies, saying they were paying other creditors in preference to him. Fortnight ago he brought suit for $25,000,000 against Mr. Heckscher, Mr. Heckscher's son G. Maurice and 16 other men, charging they had run his companies illegally during his "absence." Last week silent Mr. Heckscher was no longer silent, brought a $250,000 suit against Promoter Bob on grounds of fraudulent representations made in connection with Consolidated Chromium Corp. Whereupon Mr. Bob went to court, said the Heckscher complaint contained much that was "vexatious, scandalous and irrelevant," should be rewritten...
...atmosphere of secrecy hung over Norfolk Navy Yard last week. At rest there was the battleship Utah, silent, crewless. Aboard her were many work men, but no hammers resounded, no chips flew as they went , silently about their tasks. Skilled electricians and radio experts superintended every move of the delicate operation that will convert the Utah into the Navy's greatest experiment in radio-controlled warships. When the work is completed the Utah will carry not a man, but will steer herself, steam at slow speeds and fast, maneuver, lay down smoke screens - all directed by a distant destroyer...
...husband's campaigns she threw herself with all the force of her able intellect. She kept up his faith in himself and his cause through defeat and discouragement. She was, she boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin politics and he affectionately referred to her as "the counselor," fondly recalled "when we were Governor." She stumped for him during his Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public...
...always been successful, prepared to send his new S. S. Edgewater on her maiden voyage from River Rouge, Mich., to Edgewater, N. J. Forerunner of a big fleet of cargo carriers, S. S. Edgewater is no ordinary ship. Tidewater tars would not recognize her as she passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel 300 ft. long, with 43 ft. beam, cargo space...