Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...string: the conference must not discuss Reparations, War Debts or specific tariffs. Left open for debate were such matters as silver (but not its remonetization), trade barriers, embargoes, import and export quotas, international credit and tariff policies. The practical, though remote purpose of the conference was, somehow to set world trade going again...
...improved earnings (see col. 2). Higher commodity prices, if maintained, would help the food and mail order companies. Big loans to railroads would mean orders for the equipment companies. But for the most part the rally was predicated upon hopes. Big Hope No. i was that the Administration was somehow in back of the market, would let no harm befall it, would prod bear flanks unmercifully. Big Hope No. 2 was that there was "something in the air." To assist this second hope, the Press of the land last week got behind the market and shoved amain. Every isolated plant...
...rascal is Stephan Stephanovitch, absolute monarch of the minor Balkan kingdom of Illyria, as he sits in his shirtsleeves in the Royal Palace of Zeta playing chess with General Kosovo, his Prime Minister. Illyria is in a sad state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around...
...TIME for June 27 we find that at the Republican National Convention "the band struck up . . . 'I've Been Working on the Railroad,' somehow associated with the President's engineering activities...
...Iowa," in honor of the President's birthplace; then "California, Here I Come," in honor of his home state, whither he has not returned since 1928 and whither he said last week he could not return for the Olympic Games; then "I've Been Working on the Railroad," somehow associated with the President's engineering activities...