Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall got his railroad charter from the New York Legislature but there is no record of his visiting Panama during the construction of the line. The California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed...
...East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England and Australia do not wel come a policy compelling them to buy in a dearer market." In Tokyo last week arrived sober, youthful-looking John Grieg Latham, Australian Minister for External Affairs. He was dined & wined, received by the Emperor in audience and taken in state to inspect two cotton mills. To interviewers he announced : 'I am willing to hear any proposals on matters of trade and transmit them to the Commonwealth Government." Japanese...
...that Koki Hirota was the man who failed in his examinations for the diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota was an ardent member of a super-nationalist secret society known as the Genyosha or Black Sea Society. Its leader, Mitsuru Toyama, now 78, is still politically active, head of the far more formidable Black Dragon Society whose members for the most part are not schoolboys...
Congratulations for catching a highly newsworthy item in your blurb for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions [TIME, April 23]., Charming Missionary Woodbridge and his sober-sided backers are out to split the Presbyterian church. This plight would be news indeed to worldly cynics...
...navigation of the Congo were agreed to by the 1885 Conference of Berlin which provided freedom of navigation for all signatory powers, and prohibited differential river tolls in favor of any one. In what way Belgium had violated the constitutional rights of Oscar Chinn only he and the sober judges of the World Court knew last week...