Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioners were photographed with the President on the White House posinground. The Hoover shoulder nudged close to the Wickersham shoulder, the Hoover cheeks puckered on the verge of a smile...
...Chairman Wickersham was asked: "Would it be possible ... for you to report . . . that national Prohibition is unenforceable?" He replied: "Yes, it is intellectually possible-[a smile]-but certainly improbable...
...when he ordered an end to permits for drilling on Government land, and to renewals of lapsed oil leases (TIME, March 25). This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board to sanction this agreement. Attorney-General Mitchell ruled that such an agreement among...
...more conservative O Jornal said: "Miss Brazil's mission has grown to proportions that none expected. . . . Her smile brings the two republics closer than arduous diplomacy. We Brazilians are grateful to the Americans for the distinctions shown to our countrywomen. Public opinion is grateful to the great sister republic of the North which each day becomes more beloved by Brazilians...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...