Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told how the U. S. Embassy had received bills totaling some $3,000 for Mr. Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, his traveling companion. One was for $1,300 for transatlantic telephone calls. Another was for $500 for an airplane chartered to fly from...
...leaders dared from Socialistic schemes which formed at first one of their great electioneering points. Fortnight ago Herr Hitler began the turn by declaring, "We must not depose a businessman if he is efficient just because he is not yet a Nazi. . . . Our program . . . does not oblige us to upset everything like fools!" Last week came action to set top side up the hundreds of German businesses which have been upset by forcing into their executive offices Nazi busybodies, called "commissars," with unspecified authority...
...hand, they should recognize that the laisser faire economy in which the free traders proved their case is rapidly ceasing to exists. This country has embarked on a far-reaching program of national economic planning. It may be that the domestic adjustments of this program would be upset if our commodity and capital markets were open without restriction to foreign influences. It may turn out that the balanced industrial structure contemplated by the New Deal must be insulated from foreign shocks. The arguments for free trade as the ultimate goal are still unanswerable, but until all nations have adopted...
...same with me!" cried Prime Minister MacDonald, after which the session waxed really warm. Mr. Cox, upset by all he heard that day, was sent to bed by his doctor at 7 p. m. with one degree of fever...
Warming to this good idea, the Chancellor thundered: "We have absolute power! . . . Our program was not formed to make pretty gestures but to give life to the German people. It does not oblige us to upset everything like fools! It requires us to be clever and cautious...