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Word: understandingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, Mr. A. C. Needles, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. I call your attention to this error not that I think it makes a great deal of difference, or that I think the American Public is particularly interested in my physiognomy, but because of what I understand to be your desire for and claim to accuracy in everything which appears in your publication. I make no claims to physical pulchritude, hence my complacency over the error you have made in substituting Mr. Needles' picture for mine. Under these circumstances, it only remains for you to make your peace with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Guarantee Fund, a sort of fiscal flying buttress in the Young Plan, was cut out of the negotiations last week by Mr. Hoover, whose State Department announced: "We understand that the French Government now indicates that it can drop this from the discussion." Only a few hours earlier the obligation of France with respect to the Guarantee Fund* had brought the parleys near to a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Andrew William Mellon, despite his 76 years, vigorously sat up nights with the best, revealed a surprising ability to understand French. (Only one of the French negotiators had any command of English, Finance Minister Flandin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite the Royal Mail Steam Packet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: French Line Floated | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...seen frequently riding about Belgrade in an automobile in the evening! My father and my cousin were murdered. My mother, my brother, my brother-in-law and myself are living in exile. Another brother-in-law died mysteriously in a military prison. Now you may understand why my thesis is entitled 'June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Raditch on Raditch | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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