Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credo suited all but the most doctrinaire New Dealers. He said: "To tell you the truth, I think that I am really a pretty conservative fellow from the old school, perhaps a school too old to be remembered. I think that, from the point of view of the investors, the one safe, controlling and guiding stand should be conservative standards of finance-no monkey business...
...them napping, for in Berne, Amsterdam, London, New York, markets fell last week and kept falling as big investors hastily unloaded in something very like a panic. If they had not known what Chancellor Hitler was going to do last week until he actually did it, how could they tell what he was going to do next...
...nevertheless always first to print stories of ministerial crises (often before they occurred), got first copies of dispatches from diplomats abroad, read the Queen's speeches before the Queen herself had read them. Editor Delane made Cabinet members so scared of The Thunderer that often they hurried to tell him their most vital decisions to save themselves from attack...
...Greene: "I must beg of you, Mr. Savile, that you will not refer to the English Church as if it were some female of your acquaintance. I tell you, I cannot digest my dinner if you will talk...
Notes between the notes: Magic Key program Sunday went sadistic, putting on a swell new swing band, and saying. "That's all, kiddies. We'll tell you the name of the outfit in a few weeks" . . . Ha! Kemp's record of "Blue Moonlight" (Victor), a concert jazz extract like "Deep Purple," is one of the best the band has done in a long while . . . Contrary to general reports, Jack Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success...