Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oslo Group. Because the Scandinavian nations speak nearly the same language, share the same royal family and were most ardently bound to neutrality during the War, they formed instinctively a tight little group that talked and voted alike during the early years of the League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual...
...Prime Minister's Conservative Party cracked down on the tax. It was described as "monstrous," as "the most disastrous proposal any government has put forward since the War." Only one Government supporter praised the measure-Sir John Simon, who as newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer had to speak well of it. Neville Chamberlain was in the unenviable position of being opposed by the Party of which he had been appointed leader that very...
...Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far," originally used by Roosevelt I to describe his methods of coping -with the Xew York Republican machine...
Farinacci's contribution was specially significant, for this "Overlord of the North" has long been entrusted to speak II Duce's mind. It was he who laid down the minimum terms for solving the Ethopian dispute, terms which led to the still born Hoare-Laval scheme (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935). It was he who last year reviled British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley for knuckling under to the police. It was he who roared loudest against the Coronation of King George and said of those Italians who wanted to go to London to see it: "We shall do everything...
...whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil in the railroad field as they are in the field...