Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposal had been scrapped by the Conference, Senator Pittman kept open house in his hotel suite for delegates of silver nations, worked furiously to get them to sign a "memorandum of agreement" to steady the world price of silver as a commodity. During a hectic day & evening he finally wrung signatures from delegates of seven other nations, the last to sign (just before midnight) being China's owl-eyed Dr. W. W. Yen. "This," cried perspiring Senator Pittman, "is the most dramatic moment of my life...
Each capitalist group would be a chartered company, like the famed East India Co. which wrung so much wealth from Indian natives between the reigns of Charles II and William IV. To make the proposition more attractive Premier Lyons is willing to let the half-million square miles on hundred-year leases exempting the chartered companies from Australian duties, land taxes and income tax for that period...
...looked like September 1914 at the Saint Lazare station in Paris one morning last week. Farewells were shouted, hands were wrung, a few tears shed-all the atmosphere of an official and precipitate evacuation surrounded the departure of So U. S. trade commissioners and commercial attaches and their families. Less than a week before Secretary of Commerce Roper had cabled most of the Department's European representatives to hand in their resignations, close their offices by June 30. when the fiscal year ends. If they wanted a free ride home they had to catch the George Washington on June...
...White paper of the British diplomats charged the Bolsheviks with third-degree methods, day-long cross-examinations, and attempts to bribe Russians who were to pass on the work done by the Vickers Company. The embassy vehemently declares that the confessions signed by two of the British suspects were wrung out of them only after Mediaeval tortures and the strain of continuous questioning. In reply the Soviets have, of course, denied these allegations and reasserted that the men will be brought to public trial to answer the official charges...
...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...