Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banks & Brakes," in your Feb. 10 issue: Please accept thanks from a non-business-minded coed for a very lucid explanation of inflation and credit matters. I suggest that every girl who has as much trouble as I do in grasping economic principles should keep this issue on her desk, to be read faithfully once a week till thoroughly absorbed. That will be my procedure, anyway...
...reported that a Liberal Member of the English Parliament will suggest to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin next week the plan of placing British naval bases at the disposal of American warships; a proposal which, if carried out, will deeply affect the present position of the United States at the Naval Conference. The American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing...
While it may sound ridiculous to suggest that college professors should take a course in public speaking, this appears to be the obvious solution. Could they bring themselves to undergo such training, they would almost certainly enjoy their lecturing more, and their effectiveness as teachers would be measurably enhanced...
...King's activity is of a different sort from that of the late Prince Consort Albert, who toiled night & day over the lustiest and most arduous matters of state but it does suggest that Edward VIII has stuff in him likely to ripen on the Throne. No woman has ever pleased Majesty unless she was what King Edward calls "snappy" - that is, active, a good dancer, ebullient, high-strung. In horses he has the same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely...
...planning the translation of Father Damien, the clergy were meticulously careful not to permit any ceremonies which might seem to suggest that he was already saintly. In all canonization causes the Roman Congregation of Rites vigilantly investigates all aspects of the candidate's life. In the case of Father Damien, the Congregation has doubtless already been obliged to consider old stories which gained fresh currency upon the death nearly five years ago of Father Damien's zealous, self-sacrificing successor, Brother Joseph Dutton (TIME, April 6, 1931). Brother Joseph died at 87, untouched by leprosy. Why, some wondered...