Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured) but to the Country Hospital in Shanghai's International Settlement, where a U. S. Marine Navy Pharmacist's Mate Horace Albert Thomson obliged with a blood...
...last week that tireless journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware...
...Kennedy's job included: 1) canceling the old mail subsidies and settling up between the Government and some 40 shipping lines; 2) figuring out a new type of direct subsidy on a businesslike basis and getting the shipping lines to make new contracts. The first required tireless negotiation of claims and counterclaims. The second required Mr. Kennedy to figure out what shipping routes were necessary and reasonably economic to operate so as to be worth subsidizing, and to arrange for the building of enough up-to-date ships by the operators so that they will have a chance...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
...quarter down, the balance to be paid C. O. D. But delivering the goods was worth every cent of it. The first hitch was when old Senator Mayne of Mishawauka said the candidate was incompetent, refused to endorse him. Unexpected opposition came from influential Ferris Branolsky, a tireless fanatic in tracing the smells from big receiverships. The first obstacle to be removed was old Senator Mayne, who died of a stroke in a heroic but futile filibuster against a routine bill to pay foreign bond holders in present devalued currency. It took a good deal of very practical politics...