Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed himself a week before. Rather than take the risk of the Democracy's losing the Nation's No. 1 city to a Republican-led Fusion body, the President, through a Farley-Flynn-McKee finesse, was prepared to take the double hazard of lending his tacit support in a local political fight, thus jeopardizing his national prestige, and affronting the Republican Progressives who helped shove his recovery program through Congress last spring. McKee's support would be drawn from the following of Fusion Candidate Fiorello La Guardia, scrappy little Progressive ex-Congressman, firm friend of Senators Norris...
...hand, Mr. Curry has snared him into tacit support of Dr. O'Brien; on the other, Mr. Schurman is peppering him as a black deceiver, not to be endured in any of his works and pomps, uninterested in good government or indeed in anything but the governorship. What assault he will suffer at the hands of his real victim, Mr. LaGuardia, remains to be seen, but it is clear that he cannot but emerge from the New York campaign as that most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect...
...Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property of Rossetti. He often said he would marry her but put it off so long that when he finally did she was ungrateful and obviously dying. But she lived long enough to suspect Rossetti often of unfaithfulness, to bear him a still-born child...
Schulte, United Cigar, Liggett and most small dealers joined in the price-upping, hoped that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. would see fit to follow. Tobacco men believed that the move had at least the tacit approval of Mr. Hill who, believing he has the 10-centers licked, is reported to be pondering a boost in the wholesale price...
...week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval to the act. A. H. Diebold, president of Drug Inc.. last week sent a letter to his 30,000 stock-holders inviting them to vote Aug. 7 on splitting up Drug Inc. into five companies. What is more he told his stockholders that Drug Inc.'s directors...