Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Barkley insisted that not war talk but work undone was the best reason for not adjourning. Before war comes to Europe, not after, Congress should clear its calendar, said he-a calendar that is indeed well clogged...
...contract, which in effect forbade his men to strike, thus freeing him to fight A. F. of L. encroachment by making it costly for the employers. The operators refused. He then offered to keep his men at work under a temporary extension of their old agreement, pending further talk about his demands. The operators refused, insisted upon a two-year renewal of their old agreement without change. Nettled by this response from men with whom he had dealt amicably for years, angry Mr. Lewis reasoned that railways, banks, steel companies control many a coal mine. "Obviously," he growled, "the interference...
...request" theory at its face value had it been made at any other time. But only 36 hours later Foreign Minister Josef Beck of Poland was to make an important reply to Adolf Hitler before the Polish Parliament (see p. 21). The British and French press were beginning to talk about "appeasing" the Germans again (see p. 21), at a time when the "Peace Front" was considering involved negotiations with the Soviet Union with a view to stopping Hitler...
...jump either way. Foreign Commissar Molotov, inexperienced in diplomacy, represents no fixed foreign policy. Chief claim to U. S. fame was his denunciation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing last week) he can turn to negotiations with the Dictators' front...
Commissar's official mansion, where she was inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign...