Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could "Jimmy" get the nomination? If the Governor had removed him he would be legally barred from running to succeed himself. His resignation circumvented that. Boss Curry was silent about another Walker candidacy. Boss McCooey was undetermined. It was reported that Alfred Emanuel Smith was against Walker because he "quit under fire." Republicans and independent Democrats scuttled about to find a winning fusion candidate...
...slightest intention of modifying its Manchurian policy one iota but it was burningly anxious to know just how far the U. S. and Europe would back their "moral indignation." European reports were reassuring. British editors were as indignant as those in the U. S. but British statesmen kept very silent, anxious not to endanger their friendly relations with Japan. So did the French. French citizens have money invested in the Chinese Eastern Railway, which they are anxious to sell to Japan. In the U. S. the complete text of the Stimson speech was cabled to Japan. Smiling little Ambassador Katsuji...
...because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...
...something over 70%, has been voluntarily converted. Over 75% of the individual bondholders, 2,036,700 out of 2,600,000, have come forward with applications. Only 6½% of them took advantage of their right of Dec. 1 redemption (in paper pounds) instead of conversion. Those who remain silent until Oct. i automatically have their interest...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...