Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prestige Parity. Meanwhile Italian delegation, silent for weeks, made conciliatory gestures toward the French. In an expansive moment the bearded suave Dino Grandi admitted that Italy did not really need as big a navy as the French, but she had to demand it in order to maintain Fascist prestige. Delicately he hinted that France had a colonial empire in North Africa as large as the U. S. If France would cede a little bit of that to Italy, it would maintain Fascist prestige quite as well as a large navy. The notion was greeted with frigid silence. France replied that...
Next morning, as the 80 Disobedients again took the path, the village was asleep; not a single cheer resounded. In a nearby hamlet Saint Gandhi called his lonely procession to a halt, gazed up and down the silent, empty street, addressed the blank windows of slumbering houses. "If you do not awake you will be looted by other people, if not by Englishmen...
...your blood." When he arrived at Nadiad, Mr. Gandhi sank to the ground, had to have cold compresses applied to his head, his legs swabbed with ointment, before he could proceed. At Anand he announced he would rest for a day and, following his one-day-a-week-silent rule, would say no word to anyone. Newsgatherers reported they did not believe the emaciated saint would be physically able to go much farther, waited to see how he felt after his day of rest and silence...
...Hoover visitors were Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of the President of Harvard University, and Mrs. Francis E. Slattery. They have organized "The Silent Women of America," whose purpose is to combat "the nationalization of children" through various forms of Federal welfare aid. Mrs. Putnam specified the Silent Women's opposition to the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act under which the U.S. gave States a $1-for-$1 subsidy for welfare work; the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution; and legislation for a U.S. Department of Education...
Explained Mrs. Putnam: "We're going to turn the spotlight on the Children's Bureau and abolish it. We thought it only fair to let President Hoover know it in advance. Oh, I don't think the Silent Women will be so silent after all. We'll have plenty...