Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place at a time when Europe faced with anxiety a future made dark by unbalanced budgets and disordered currencies, when the dangers were known, and the end results of keeping on as they were going threatened disaster to several European nations, if not to all of them. To be sure, no one expected of that conference anything so successful as the Dawes Plan. But everyone was aware that nothing short of that could clear the atmosphere...
Chile and Peru have both prospered in the past 40 years. Both nations hailed the Hoover solution joyously. Bolivia's sorrow was that she has been cut off from the sea for 46 years and now seems sure to remain...
William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest...
Paul Louis Charles Claudel, poet, novelist, French Ambassador to the U.S., spoke in Manhattan last week to the Catholic Actors Guild. Said he: "I am sure [you] are all good Catholics and very good actors. As for myself, if I try to be a good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...
Calmer alumni pointed to Girard trustees like Lawyer Owen Josephus Roberts, whom President Coolidge chose as special Federal prosecutor in the Oil Scandals (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), and William H. Kingsley, a Girard alumnus. They felt sure that trustees like these would keep intact the Girard endowment, even supposing that Senator-suspect Vare might be covetous, which seemed to them impractical if not incredible...