Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians will be grateful for his picture of Lenin addressing a meeting: "The buzz of conversation dies as he shuffles onto the stage before you. For a period you join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
Next afternoon the President went through a more serious ritual. Some 150 correspondents jampacked his office. The President leaned back in his chair, looked at his watch, lit a cigaret, smiled, waited until the doors were closed. Then, to each correspondent was given a piece of paper on which was mimeographed...
...guards before Manchukuo authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that time Russia's negotiations to sell its $200,000,000 equity in the Chinese Eastern to Manchukuo have completely collapsed. "All wise governments should watch the Far East with the greatest vigilance," wrote M. Herriot. "The question of a railroad in Manchuria brings us to the question of war or peace. . . . War! The word...
Cleveland's outraged Animal Protective League announced it would watch for cruelty in future Beatty performances...
...will build 7,000 steel box cars at a cost of $17,000,000 in its own shops, will buy 101 electric locomotives for some $15,000,000. In his exuberance over this vast enterprise President Atterbury last week handed dazzled newshawks two new business "indices." "The thing to watch for is paint," said the General. "If you see a box car going along with a bright new red coat of paint on it you will know that the railroad that owns it is doing a profitable business again. . . . Everybody stops painting when profits stop. . . . Watch emery wheels. Watch...