Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank director he finances armament loans. As the President of Union Europeenne Industriale et Financiere he has his finger in 230 armament and allied enterprises outside France. Chief of these is Czechoslovakia's Skoda. In this firm French, German, Czech and Polish directors come together in the friendliest spirit to discuss the problems of increasing European consumption of armaments...
...Chandler, loyal friend of Herbert Hoover, had this to say in his Los Angeles Times: "As the code applies to the newspaper, it seems to me to be unworkable-not to say an unjustified and unnecessary and dangerous movement to interfere with an institution which was born of the spirit of freedom. ... If the code system is carried to its logical conclusion, the end must inevitably be the handcuffing of the Press...
When commercial operators lost their airmail contracts, they warned Washington and the country that the Army, for all its fine spirit. was not equipped or trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price...
...viewing President Gordon's departure with "genuine regret," declaring he had won the "support and confidence of the student body." All President-elect Woodcock, A. E. F. veteran, Methodist and bachelor, would say was: "I want to revive what we used to call the St. John's spirit, building the future of the college on character and scholarship...
...place called the Lampoon building, telling me that he had been a member of it in the good old days. They must have been different, for the fellows there were shouting about who should paint John red if they did paint him, and Uncle Harry said the old spirit popped out occasionally, but I said I was bored and wanted something to eat, so we went down some stairs in the same building to the Lampoon Cafe which is quite a place. Uncle Harry finally seemed to realize that I had been fed up upstairs, and he said that...