Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite a press campaign against anything but unconditional victory, even in Rightist Spain there was growing talk of mediation. Few U. S. or British newsmen covering Rightist Spain have stood in the good graces of Generalissimo Franco's avid blue-penciling censors for long. Notable exception is New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, who has minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt...
...life insurance salesmen ferreting about the U. S. last week were using something new in sales talk-"Buy now before the price goes up." Mutual Life of New York, Northwestern Mutual Life, New York Life and Connecticut Mutual had announced that they would soon make important changes in their contracts and every other important life insurance company was expected to follow suit. Immediate reason: Into effect on January 1 goes a New York law reducing from 6% to 5% the interest that life insurance companies may charge for policy loans...
Last summer, as talk of rewriting Section 77 grew, ICC put on the pressure. Western Pacific was the fourth Class I railroad shoved through the wringer in four months.* Giving a clear indication of its temper, ICC last week declared: "If . . . reorganization is to be successful, the capital structure of the reorganized company must be realistically related to its actual earning power...
Since Munich the element of reluctance has given way to alacrity in the Balkans where Germany is concerned. Dr. Funk announced last week that the Economics Ministers of Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have all "gladly accepted" his invitations to come to Berlin and talk further big business soon...
...this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...