Word: angers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly...
...well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury to maintain at the expense of the country at large. At this suggestion, a howl of anger went up from the representatives of beet sugar states...
...grind, its edge is no longer considered socially dangerous. And though, like a good Jew, he keeps his hat on in these sacred precincts, few will hear any bees buzzing within it. ". . . We have tried in so far as possible to write of them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware now of living in another moral climate and in the midst of a new generation. . . ." When the Civil War began "Jay Gould. Jim Fisk, J. P. Morgan, Philip Armour, Andrew Carnegie...
...anger at this stubborn resistance from within his own party Governor Lehman made a threat. During the 1932 campaign. Franklin Roosevelt gave his good friend Herbert Lehman his blessing, saying in his hearty way that he was glad that Lehman would be at Albany so that he could call up from the White House and say "Hello, Herbert, this is Frank." Last week Governor Lehman let it be known that, unless Bosses Flynn and Farley saw the error of their ways, he would call up the White House and say in effect, "Hello, Frank, this is Herbert. Will you please...
...most French imports. When it was presented to the House of Commons for approval three days later, only a handful of Laborites and Free Traders voted against it. Even monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed as Britain's ablest Francophile, voted for the tariff. More in sorrow than in anger he announced...