Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jim Reed retired in 1929, an acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the delight of the galleries, the despair and envy of his foes. Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot...
...Senate after four turbulent years as Kansas City's reform mayor. He fought Wilson early & late. In 1913, a Democrat-loaded House rubber-stamped Wilson's Federal Reserve Bill through in 13 hours. Senate Democrats were all set to do the same. Reed balked. Wilson's anger boiled over. But by the time the bill became law, it had 562 amendments, mostly added by Reed; and Reed had a letter from a chastened Wilson admitting that the law had been strengthened...
Caparisoned in a neat, double-breasted suit and alert amiability, Sidney Hillman acted as if he were just sitting down with the investigators to talk things over. It was more in sorrow than in anger that he reminded the Congressmen that his P.A.C. had already been officially investigated three times (twice by the FBI, once by a Senate campaign expenditures committee). He deeply resented the Communist label: "You're trying to prejudice the public against us. You're hitting below the belt!" But he welcomed this opportunity to help scotch the "fantastic stories" about P.A.C.'s huge...
...rattle closeted skeletons, somehow got into this particular closet. He rattled loudly in his column, printing excerpts from the Phillips letter. Soon hints came from London that Ambassador Phillips would resign for "personal reasons." Delightedly, Columnist Pearson printed a report that the Phillips letter had caused roars of anger up & down Downing Street. Said Pearson: the British had declared Ambassador Phillips persona non grata...
...time the shifts were made. Combat men have long griped about burly soldiers smashing baggage in Iceland, tending bar in PXs in Brisbane, have resented being equipped by healthy young quartermasters who had never heard a shot fired in anger. Plenty of the "rear-echelon commandos" resented their own lot, too, were ready for a chance at battle...