Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented the U. S. with $19,000,000 worth of Old Masters (see p. 41), to the diplomats of 50 nations who came to shake his hand at the first state reception of the season, even to the members of the Panama Canal Tolls Commission who came to talk shop with him. But most of all he showed his New Year form to newshawks who came to his press conference. He was bursting with things to tell, and spoke with the same ringing voice which correspondents heard at the press conference that followed the Supreme Court decision killing...
...underlings were vigorously denying that Vimalert nowadays has any further dealings with Amtorg. Meantime, nobody had actually set eyes on mysterious Mr. Cuse, the cause of all the commotion. At his Jersey City apartment, where he has a reputation for shyness and big tips, no reporter was permitted to talk to Mr. Cuse, his wife, ten-year-old son or maid. Photographers had to be content with his physical description given by apartment attendants: medium height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though he kept himself, the "Jersey Zaharoff" was nevertheless well represented in print by statements handed out during...
...upon landing in Mexico-and this Comrade Rivera considered more than likely-Trotsky could take refuge in the Rivera home. Already, according to the muralist, four armed men have kidnapped the caretaker of his studio, beating him severely and pitching him out of their automobile "for refusing to talk...
Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
Although the President's Message demands several days for thorough digestion, several matters stand out most significantly from the main body of thought. First, he has demolished the wild, pre-election talk of "dictatorship", declaring pointedly that "change (in the presidency) will occur in future years." Second, the tenor of his speech, as was expected, is decidedly paternalistic, brim full of suggestions for changes leading to increased national power...