Word: alerte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Echoed the Great Man's alert, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed Foreign Minister, Signer Dino Grandi...
...very much surprised to see the portrait of President Hoover in your March 2 edition which you state was expressly painted by Chandor for TIME. Its hoary academicism is so completely out of keeping with the alert modernity which has always, at least to this reader, characterized TIME! I am always stimulated by what I see and read in your magazine but I was really shocked by this portrait. To look at it is a dull and musty experience. Why can't TIME keep step with art as well as politics and science...
...alert, active President cannot long avoid trouble. President Hoover's first came within two months of his inauguration. As part of Farm Relief, the Senate wanted an export debenture. Bold and self-confident, President Hoover scotched this subsidy plan, won much public applause. He, said his friends, would show the Senate who was master. Nevertheless, that first victory cost President Hoover the friendship and support of Senator Borah and the Insurgents. A breach in the G. O. P. was then opened that gapes wider than ever today...
Stroke of Genius. A cousin of John Pierpont Morgan is the U. S. Ambassador in Turkey, alert and able, though slightly deaf, Joseph Clark Grew. Last week, presumably because of Mr. Crew's diplomacy, the consuls of Turkey in Soviet Russia were granted authority to certify documents relative to Russo-U. S. trade...
Wages in the steel industry are not coming down." He argued against any wage-reductions: "It is my deliberate judgment that a general reduction of wages in this country would set back the impending recovery by at least two years." Alert listeners realized that this viewpoint directly opposed that expressed by Albert Henry Wiggin when he spoke to Chase National Bank's stockholders last fort night (TIME, Jan. 19). "Dead Centre." Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, also had a brief word to say last week. Members of New York State Bankers...