Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay a quarter-mile to the north. Sea winds had budged Kill Devil Hill some 50 ft. a year before Army engineers anchored it with hardy grasses and shrubs...
...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...Union Pacific was forced to sell its stock control in Southern Pacific, but S. P. maintained the regional plan. Last week these two great shoes of the late great Harriman were shuffled. Southern Pacific, the left shoe, was returned from regional management to one-man control under tall, taciturn Hale Holden. Union Pacific, the right shoe, was given over to the late great Harriman's son, William Averell Harri man, now 40 and ready to undertake his greatest heritage...
...Socialist cartoon showed brown-shirted Fascists being paid out of the Federal Treasury, which they are not. The Catholic article attacked Catholic Chancellor von Papen for his stand at Lausanne. Decision as to whether to suppress the newspapers was up to Prussian Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Karl Severing, taciturn Socialist, famed for ruthless police methods to keep order in Berlin...