Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of the most effective grumbling: ''Glittering phrases about stimulating 'sound and healthy trade' do not conceal the fact that in the treaty the forest products industries and their employes have been sacrificed for promised benefits to other industries." (Makers of shingles, however, were keeping silent because red cedar shingle imports were limited to 25% of U. S. consumption compared to imports now running around...
...left of Harman Blennerhassett's mansion in the wilderness. In Canada, whither the Blennerhassetts had moved following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
Freedom of the seas was one of President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and necessarily a wartime specialty of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Up for the silent President spoke in Washington last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To the Press good Mr. Hull handed mimeographed elaborations of an earlier interview with himself reading: "Speedy restoration of more full and stable trade conditions . . . is by far the most profitable objective for our people to visualize, in contrast with such risky and temporary trade as they might maintain with belligerent nations. I repeat that our objective...
...minute or two Alice stood silent wondering whether she dared make herself more plain, then...