Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never since 1917 was such a proposal more out of keeping with U. S. temper than last week. Hurry up calls from Washington sent Ambassadors Joseph P. Kennedy (London) and William Bullitt (Paris) hustling back to the White House from vacations in Florida. Ambassadors rarely appear before Congressional committees, and then only before foreign affairs committees. But Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt were promptly closeted in "secret" session with a joint meeting of the House & Senate Military Affairs Committees...
...that the President of the U. S., not the Governor of Michigan, was at fault-in not early and firmly condemning sit-downs. Frank Murphy's steadfast point is that the use of force would certainly have caused heavy bloodshed. He was there, he knew the ugly temper of the men, and Captain Frank Murphy, who saw two years of the War with the infantry and is by nature gentle as a girl, would not shed blood...
...transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech. But Mr. Welles is also the man who wrote for Secretary Hull an extremely sharp note on Mexican expropriations this year, and when harsh words are required Mr. Welles is an expert in speaking them...
...tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper his tools. But he learned how. Last week the tunnel was finished - 2,000 ft. through solid rock. William Schmidt expected at last to make some money from his claims...
...Thanksgiving turkey for fellow paralysis patients, singled out Eddie Cantor's Thanksgiving greeting to read aloud: "I am grateful that I live in a country where all leaders can sit down . . . and carve up a turkey instead of carve up a map." Correspondents noted that his tongue and temper, raspy when he left Washington, were improved. When he took occasion to tell "his other State" (Georgia) that it really must amend its laws so as to permit it to borrow funds from PWA like the rest of the States, he did so without being sharp or sarcastic...