Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
...that he could see no more justification for guaranteeing railroad reorganization bonds than for those of a cotton mill, steel company or automobile factory. A reporter suggested that it might be done to protect insurance companies and others with large railroad holdings. There has been a lot of loose talk about that, snapped the President, when, as a matter of fact, banks and insurance companies generally make a practice of writing down their portfolios along with the decline in market value...
...trains were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
...Arlie Bock will be the guest of honor at the weekly House dinner at Adams House tonight and will talk afterwards on "Some Backgrounds of Human Trouble." Only members of Adams House may attend...
...They talk of spirit more and show it less...