Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Secretary of State Hughes curtly retorted to the Soviet through the Press: "There would seem to be at this time no reason for negotiations. ... If the Soviet authorities are ready to restore confiscated property of American citizens or make effective compensation they can do so. If they are ready to repeal their decree repudiating obligations to this country . . . they can do so. It requires no conference or negotiations to accomplish these results which can and should be achieved at Moscow as evidence of good faith. . . . Most serious is the continued propaganda to overthrow the institutions of this country. This Government...
Though approval and enaction of a quota system did not seem immediately probable last week, U. S. motormakers, anxious to offset declining sales at home by expanding sales abroad, were worried by possible spreading of the tariff wall against cars and parts. And business conditions in Europe were another source of anxiety. Bearish items of the week included the dismissal of the entire production staff (600 men) from the Ford plant in Spain...
...Certain interests [he meant the grain brokers] which seem to feel they have a God-given right to handle the products of the farmers, and who have accumulated immense fortunes in doing so ... doubtless will be easy picking for any politician of any party who is willing to play their game...
...However, farmers as a class . . . seem to be aware that their present unhappy condition is a result of long years of unregulated production, while they listened to gigantic schemes that high-powered statesmen have had to offer...
...office, "Farmer Jim" in the offices. Publisher Sterling is Governor Dan Moody's Chairman of the Texas State Highway Commission. This was his first campaign for public office. His main plank was to spend $300.000.000 in road bonds. "Farmer Jim" made the amount and purpose seem horrible. Democrats heeded his eloquent denunciations, rather than Governor Dan Moody's exhortations for Candidate Sterling. Governor Moody, with two terms in office, had decided not to make a third effort...