Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to be guests of Airman Balbo in his sand-strewn Balboland?and nearly escaped all publicity. In Rome the school of opinion close to Mussolini has it that the Dictator thought what Balbo needed was not more publicity and a swelled head but tough, responsible, empire-building work likely to forge his wild daring into the mold of a mature Italian statesman. The typical Sunday supplement story has Balbo "banished to Libya," whereas Tripoli is only seven hours from Rome by the daily Italian air service and Governor Balbo continues to set foot...
...fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
...next job was to keep Frankie out of trouble during the operation, and we were quickly handed a Campbell's soup tin stuffed with ether-soaked cotton to hold like a cone over the animal's nose. But it was no go. For Frankie was tough, and soon revived. He took one look in our direction to assure himself that the opposition was coming from the same quarters as before, and acted...
...This is admittedly a tough nut to crack. If judges have . . . political or economic predilections . . . they are scrupulously suppressed. . .. Judges are moralists and good fellows. They like to see people get a square deal. For example, any railroad company which has not had its tax assessment lowered since the Depression . . . may have its tax bill cut down by this court [Great Northern Ry. v. North Dakota]. This is the type of legislative tyranny which is clearly a violation of due process. . . . We shall give back any money exacted as taxes . . . for the benefit of farmers . . . but we shall have nothing...
...these corporate debts have been honored in full is that spunky U. S. bondholders methodically set out to attach the debtors' property in the U. S., including their ships when they docked. How much money could be squeezed out of Germany if the rest of the bondholders got tough is problematical. Britain's simple threat of appropriating German trade balances for the benefit of its citizens holding German bonds brought quick results in the form of a 4% scrip offer, as against the 3% offered U. S. bondholders in the issue registered last week. German trade with Britain...