Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invited last autumn to speak to the students of brokerage at the New "York Stock Exchange "Institute," SECommis-sioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas stirred up a teapot tempest in Wall Street by unburdening himself on the "unestablished value" of customers' men, a financial tribe marked for early SEC attention. Referring to the "practice of gentlemen teaching gentlemanly ways of redistributing the wealth of their clients," tart-tongued Bill Douglas went on to observe...
...Marines" was her summary of his qualifications to succeed her in office. It is not clear whether she hopes he will return to his war-time profession or whether she speaks as delegate-emeritus to the Disarmament Conference. An excess of self-conscious femininity started the tempest in South Hadley, and the longer the feathers and epithets fly between the women the closer their claim of equality approaches a slur on the dominant...
Around the question of what if any changes President Hartford might now admit in this policy a brief tempest raged last fortnight in the Great Atlantic & Pacific teapot. Reproduced on the January cover of the advertising magazine Tide was a yellow handbill circulated last month by A & P stores in New Orleans. Headlined "Compare! Save 29%!" the handbill listed in parallel columns 15 nationally known food products against 15 equivalents manufactured by A & P, all sold in A & P stores. The prices in the outside brand column added up to $2.40; those in the A & P products column...
Around the U. S. Capitol there was no rest for janitors, even on Sunday. Through the marble halls of Senate and House office buildings they pushed crates of furniture and filing cabinets. Painters slapped on new paint. Scrub women wore out their knees. There was a minor tempest in the office of Senator John Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead...
...previously obtained assent from the steering committee for the Conference, by a suspension of the rules, to grasp its supreme opportunity of erecting the Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that if at a Conference one delegate...