Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chautemps Cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of State, and back with him were 21 erstwhile Blum Cabinet members, including Yvon Delbos who continues as Foreign Minister. The one Socialist thrown to the Senate wolves was Blum's droopy-eyed Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps had to reach all the way to Washington last week and pluck...
...ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which he wished to broadcast from his pack-set. Mary stole the pack-set, found it handy after she was kidnapped by a gang of thugs occupied in stealing a Federal gold shipment, armored car and all. It was Eddy...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
...have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left of Center could be extended indefinitely. Indeed, complaint has been heard that the University has staffed its Social Departments with too many men of Leftist inclinations, but the main point to be observed is the utter folly of such charges as Mr. Lamb's ill-considered attack. Bitter wars of words can do no harm to an institution like Harvard, where academic liberty is as firmly entrenched as any vested interest, but such alarms and excursions as Mr. Lamb's essay will bring nothing but discredit...
...morning that seniors of high standing, "supervised and paid", would prove more valuable to the Yardlings than the present advisers who are widely admitted to be inadequate. But although no one can deny the almost criminal negligence that the officials of Harvard have bestowed on the problem and their utter failure to move toward a solution, no matter how many voices have cried out in protest, it does not follow at all that seniors would be any more capable to solve Freshman problems than the men who are supposed to shoulder that task...