Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abroad, Tokyo was the only capital-except Moscow (see p. 14)-in which U. S.-Russian recognition created any stir. Tokyo papers printed screaming extras. Japanese, who mortally fear any aid the U. S. may give to Russia, their traditional foe, read the extras with pounding pulses. Everything, realists realize, now depends upon the size of credits which the U. S. proceeds to extend to Russia, notorious for her reluctance to pay in cash, her insistence on long rather than short-term credits. As the President went off to Warm Springs (see p. 7), Comrade Litvinoff stayed in Washington...
...depicted as "strong and muscular" (TIME, March 6), but he has also scandalized them by habitually inviting Non-Conformists to preach from his pulpit. When lately Bishop David announced he was bringing in, of all people, a Unitarian, it was too much for the Anglo-Catholics, who resolved to stir up a trial on the grounds that Bishop David's actions were a "grave scandal to Christian people...
Violin prodigies are much more common than piano prodigies, for small violinists can begin on small-sized instruments which fit their fingers. Louis Persinger, who taught Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci, has a violin pupil who created an unusual stir this week...
...women would continue him in office. Magnificently he forbade the holding of a German-American rally that was tinged with Naziism (see p. 24), and to a Negro audience declared: "Not only alien agitators, but for that matter not any people can't form any plans to stir up race hatred in the metropolitan city of New York...
Last summer President Roosevelt borrowed Mr. Eastman from the I. C. C. temporarily to become his Federal Coordinator of Transportation. And when the President started to stir up the market for capital goods, he asked Coordinator Eastman to see if he could drum up enough orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only...