Word: backward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Congressman F. H. La Guardia of New York, one time World War aviator, never backward at speech, came vituperation unequivocal and pungent. Congressman La Guardia had watched the tests from the air. Said he: "A waste of the taxpayers' money . . . the cost of the test will equal the cost of three up-to-date planes . . . Anti-aircraft defense from the ground is as inefficient today as it was during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might...
...never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black...
Restricted Areas. With the object of preventing shipment of munitions to backward nations (chiefly in Africa), certain areas (including the Gulf of Persia on which many rifles are carried to the Northwest frontier) were placed in prohibitive zones. Persia, who saw her sovereignty threatened, was offended, left the Conference...
...Washington, however, the hearings on the Nickel Plate merger are making very slow progress, if indeed they are not temporarily moving backward rather than forward. The Interstate Commerce Commission has recently reopened the proceedings held in January, 1923, whereby the Van Sweringens were permitted to serve as directors on the Nickel Plate, Hocking Valley and C. & O. It is evident from this step, that the old Congressional fear of "interlocking directorates," however obsolete and however inconsistent with a policy of favoring railroad consolidations, is not yet allayed. The minority C. & O. stockholders were greatly cheered over this investigation of ancient...
...Phelps was not attracted. It may have been the climate that did not appeal to him. It may have been the people. It may have been Realtor Bryan's dismally backward, widely advertised views on education. In any case, Dr. Phelps refused. Said he: "I should be very much tempted by this offer, which I regard as a great honor, if I had not made up my mind to live and die at Yale...