Word: courteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...
Editors of the University of South Carolina yearbook, who had asked King George VI to choose pictures of the seven prettiest co-ed students at U. of S. C., received a courteous regret from Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Wrote the Ambassador: "I am sorry . . . the King is very busy conferring with his Ministers on the war situation and has no time for the lighter, if finer, things of life...
...Saracoglu refused all demands, and at length departed, with Soviet and Turkish flags decorating the Moscow station, a band alternating between the Internationale and the Turkish national anthem and a courteous Soviet communique announcing that the two countries still retained their friendship. Later, however, the Moscow newsorgan Izvestia ominously hinted that Turkish-Russian relations had soured. At the same time in Ankara, German Ambassador Franz von Papen entrained for Berlin, there to explain to Fiihrer Hitler why he had failed to win the Turks away from the Allies...
...trouble with banks is that they all have vacuous names, stone fronts, impenetrable vaults, courteous tellers, identical services. In Pasadena, Calif, the president of First Trust & Savings Bank (assets: $16,331,000), tall, easy, white-haired James S. (for Smellie) MacDonnell, now 62, long ago found a way to kick his bank into the public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena...
...passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...