Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller depositors. The Ford company refused to make such an agreement and the result was the necessity of a moratorium. . . . Unless it had been declared, the larger depositors who were informed in advance would have withdrawn their money and left the smaller ones 'holding the bag'. ... I understand that the deposit of the Ford company . . . was about...
...never heard the name of that worthy, honest, unassuming man, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland. On the other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...
Westerners, whose religious wars lie centuries behind them, could not easily understand how Turks felt last week. Kemal's ventilation had swept away the Turk's fez, his extra wives, his remaining wife's veil, and now his church service. Last week, for the first time in history, Turks of Istanbul, where the reform was inaugurated, understood what the priests were saying. But they found it hard to believe it was the same thing as the Arabic gibberish that had had 13 centuries of mumbo-jumbo behind...
What! No Beer? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most cinemaddicts in the U. S. find Jimmy Durante's exaggerated nose and chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous...
...feels an ironic inconsistency in Mr. Prince's simultaneous dicta that college chairs attract only these whom the world refuses, and that the incumbents of those chairs did not save the world from disaster. The harassed capitalist's desire to pass the buck is, however, not too difficult to understand...