Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Investigator Nye investigated munitions makers so belligerently that he convinced many U.S. citizens that all wars are deliberately fomented to enrich the "merchants of death," and incidentally scared U.S. business so far out of munitions-making as to delay U.S. rearmament substantially. All Washington knew that Britain-Baiter Nye would, if he could, turn his Lend-Lease inquiry into an anti-British field...
There was the handsome ex-Yorkville Jew-baiter, Joe McWilliams, resplendent in a red-white-&-blue necktie. McWilliams, the Great Profile of the American soapbox, is now the self-appointed leader of the bonus army of World War II. (He is agitating for a $7,800 government bonus for every World War II veteran.) His new backer, blonde, young, black-gowned Socialite Mrs. Alexis de Tarnowsky, accompanied him. Altogether, there were more than 1,000 of them (the Chicago Tribune puffed...
...Swede-baiter and vice president of Helsinki University, Professor Linkomies patched together a coalition Cabinet, with toeless* Sir Karl Henrik Wolther Ramsay as Foreign Minister. Sir Karl's title was given to him by the British, but any personal leanings he may have toward the Allies have not up to now affected his view that Finland had no choice but to stay on Germany's side. Fortnight ago, speaking as Supply Minister in the former Cabinet, Sir Karl re-emphasized one of the facts which explain Finland's continuance in the war: "Germany is the only country...
Once more John L. Lewis has proved himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members...
This was a delicate subject and difficult to get at. Tory-baiter Harold Laski told why in the New Statesman, and, in so doing, showed why so much criticism of Churchill had been ineffective. Said he: "There is, it appears, no method available by which . . . dissatisfaction can be expressed without a threat to the unity of the nation, which no one desires. . . . Direct challenge is impossible, for the information upon which alone it could be made effective cannot be revealed without aiding the enemy." Mr. Laski went on to place himself clearly among the suspicious. Said he: "Personal contact...