Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of exchange regulation in a separate commission instead of in the Federal Trade Commission. Fortnight ago, after consulting with Federal Trade Commissioner Landis, the President reversed himself. Peppery little Senator Glass was furious and many another Senator shared his displeasure. Last week House and Senate conferees kept in touch with angry Senator Glass who kept in touch with Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black who kept in touch with the President. To end the argument the President once again agreed to Mr. Glass's amendment for a separate stock control commission...
...said was Editor Welk of Die Grime Post, an agricultural weekly that once had a circulation of a million. Editor Welk returned from the meeting to tap out a mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter of the world Press forced Minister Goebbels to release...
...assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense practicality and the common sense of poor Richard: what knew...
...from some little-known African ailment contracted "on location." They also believe that the doctors of the U. S. schools of tropical medicine (Tulane, Harvard, Columbia) know less about such things than do the staff of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who are regularly in touch with cases from Great Britain's African possessions. Last week Edwina Booth's plea to the New York Supreme Court to speed up her damage suit against M-G-M was on the ground that, practically penniless, she needed money to travel to London for treatment...
...finishing touch to their careers. Bertram surprised them by enlisting at the first shot, shocked them by getting gloriously killed. Ethel's naval husband, having first embarrassed, then bored them both with his clandestine affairs, was torpedoed, sunk without trace. Meg conceived a passion for her elderly-married rector, finally did neither of them any good by writing to the Bishop about his imaginary advances. The father, weighed down by carking business cares and a German grandmother, hanged himself. Ethel's sons were left to carry on. Readers will admire Author Scott's ingenuity in projecting...