Word: animus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income...
...months' leave of absence from his regular job, Governor of the Atlanta Reserve Bank. One significance of his coming ? besides the fact that he was by all odds the funniest-looking man in the Administration ? was that by his personal popularity he softened the New Deal's animus towards bankers and vice versa. A second greater significance was that he acted as a shock absorber be tween the banking system and the Administration, pressing for sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions...
Australia was omitted, not because of any Roosevelt animus toward vineyardists down under, but because the President's quotas are based on the wine exports of countries to the U. S. before Prohibition. At that time Australia's export trade in wine was an almost invisible trickle...
...Your animus against the President is becoming more evident and is displeasing to many people. I think that the continuance of the useful place that you have made for yourselves will depend very largely upon your ability to present the news without prejudice or bias. . . . R. H. CLARK...
...Conservative Party is traditionally the arch-Imperial party of Canada. But in this election Mr. Bennett has wobbled too. Of course neither of Canada's suave and astute bachelors has actually called the other "traitor," any more than Messrs. Hoover and Smith called each other names, but the animus, the insinuation has been there...