Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaccurate to speak of Mr. Filene as the founder of the Credit Union Movement. Other Big Boston Businessmen were equally influential and unsparing of time and money in pushing the Credit Union cause ahead, particularly Felix Vorenberg and Pierre...
...national Chamber of Commerce is a good thing but vaguely so, and the International Chamber of Commerce is also good but even vaguer. Germans last week had marked able President Watson as apt at least to consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 14). Nazis Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Hitler, Göring...
...some of their close friends think they don't. But there is no difference of opinion among observers about Governor Earle. They agree he would dearly love the Democratic nomination in 1940. Senator Wheeler remarked ironically: "Governor Earle reminds me of John Alden. Why don't you speak for yourself, Governor?" In the largest sense Governor Earle was doing nothing else and he had four good reasons for his announcement in addition to getting off an immediate political hot spot: i) It is a rule of politics that any man who wants to be President must deny that...
...Most Brazilians speak Portuguese...
...bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas." One of his German expressions, in fact, became a fixture of camp life. Private Bemelmans called his Oswego girl friend "Summer Sprouts," because that...