Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...
...Georgia by the Hoover Democrats. Last week Georgia Democrats voted. Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman, pro-Smith, was renominated comfortably. In the Fifth Congressional District (Atlanta), excitement ensued between Representative Leslie J. Steele and onetime (1919-27) Representative William ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, who sought to "come back'' with Anathema Smith as his one issue. Mr. Upshaw, a cripple with a tireless, high-pitched voice, an extensive Biblical and patriotic vocabulary and a standing offer to use all for the Anti-Saloon League, was comfortably beaten by Mr. Steele...
...your readers that HOOVER hasn't a CHINAMAN'S chance of carrying anything south of the POTOMAC. You know it has "gotten out" that his campaign Manager is named "WORK" and if you tried to run a farm down here you would soon learn that work is anathema to almost the entire population...
...been the man in the office since 1921. It matters not what Treasury official wrote and what Congressmen revised the tax reduction bill that preceded the Coolidge landslide of 1924. Mr. Mellon's name was on it. Sometimes it is said that the name of Mellon is anathema to the farmers. If that is so, it is not reflected in the Secretary's mail, yet public men who have bitter enemies usually hear from them directly. The fact is that when Secretary Mellon talked about the Presidency, the country listened almost as respectfully as if President Coolidge were...
Tariff Tabled. Tariff revision is a House prerogative. Tariff reduction is anathema to Republicans. So the chubby face of Speaker Longworth darkened with a double frown when, last week, a clerk brought into the House the Senate's resolution for immediate tariff reduction (TIME, Jan. 23). Democrats cried out for action, but Speaker Longworth ruled them out of order and left the resolution "in midair" as a mere opinion of the Senate which the House could and would ignore...