Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly the Premier issued a decree which South Africans did not at first understand to mean that they had gone off the gold standard. A day & night of hectic rumors passed before Finance Minister Havenga stated with crisp, Dutch lucidity exactly what the Cabinet had done and what its action means. "The only way to prevent a financial disaster of the first magnitude," said Minister Havenga. "was to release the Reserve Bank from liability to redeem its notes in gold. . . . The Government did so release the Reserve Bank and thereby it cut the link by which South African currency...
...Please understand that I doubt the value of such inquiries as this anyone except these who conduct them. Probably they are amused but just what else is expected...
...Atlanta, said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: "This decision makes it easy to understand how the most horrible crime of modern times, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, which shocked the entire world, could occur and go unpunished in a State whose Governor has such ideas...
Putting the concession which he deems indispensable into one crisp sentence, President Alessandri said soon after his election: "Foreign companies in Chile which worked full time when returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were...
...upon to testify in person, before a Congressional investigating committee, to her loyalty. When she lost her temper, which she did frequently, she completely lost control of herself, regardless of witnesses. Once when Lincoln, tired out, had allowed himself to be dragged to an unimportant mass meeting on the understanding that he was not to be called on for a speech, the crowd insisted; Lincoln gave a brief, uninspired talk. Afterwards, in front of a friend, Mrs. Lincoln burst out: "That was the worst speech I ever listened to in my life. How any man could get up and deliver...