Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the students and their professors (five of whom were arrested as leaders) put up organized resistance. Even wily, oldtime Yanqui-Baiter Arnulfo Arias, now campaigning for President (TIME, Dec. 8), had plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...
...lighting up a Pall Mall, he readily admitted that members of the House Un-American Activities Committee could not have found a better witness. As it happened he was "a student of Marxism and Stalinism and of its probable effects on American people." He was also "a Red-baiter," he added cheerfully. "I make no bones about it. I'd like to see them all in Russia. I think a taste of Russia would cure them...
...doing so, SEC was roughly curried by Leslie Gould, financial editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, an old SEC baiter. Why, asked Gould, had it taken SEC so long to find out that Globe stock was worthless? "This Globe case," said he, "happens to be about the sorriest of the many issues floated last year-issues that should never have been offered to the public-even as speculations. . . . The underwriters of this stock were the Stock Exchange firm of New-burger & Hano of Philadelphia and Gearhart & Co. of New York. . . . What are the Stock Exchange...
...baiter Bilbo had the first of his operations at New Orleans' Jewish Touro Infirmary...
...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...