Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Ambassador in Washington, Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, has been keeping cat-like watch on the Brazilian-U. S. treasury negotiations. It is a more or less open secret that one reason President Roosevelt was so generous last week was to enable Brazil to buy more U. S. goods and thus get along with less of the German goods she has been taking with some reluctance under the dubious trade-promoting schemes which Dr. Schacht works with his various kinds of German marks. This week Adolf Hitler openly revealed his displeasure at the Brazil-U. S. liaison, declared that Washington...
...prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...
...Races (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Groucho Marx washes his hands in a basin, discovers that he has his wrist watch on. He removes it. puts it on a table, notices a bystander eyeing it. He puts it back in the basin, says: "I'd rather have it rusty than missing...
...extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared in the recent Depression. This will probably be one of the greatest arguments against restrictions. . . . All those interested in being prepared for the next collapse will do well to watch the expansion of installment credit...
...subject, in short, is seating. Where do we sit and how many of us has been a casus belli and cause celebre at many a Commencement before this, and it's likely to be again if everybody doesn't watch...