Word: bland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounced from within the committee itself. Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June 14), the chief fisherman was bald old Chairman Doughton of the Ways...
...Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark of Missouri, Bailey of North Carolina, Van Nuys of Indiana, not to mention old revolters such as Glass. Burke and Wheeler. And finally, on the other great issue of the day, the Sit-Down, they were irritated by his bland refusal to take any stand whatever. The President's great & good friend James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was responsible for the revolt in the Senate against his inaction, and not a Democratic Senator voted against his anti-Sit-Down resolution last fortnight. Where there was this kind...
...junket in person, but jouncing along in a motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu. It was as if Earl Browder should send one of his Communist henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
These military preparations, so newshawks in China assume, are for a new Japanese attack upon Suiyan which must be conquered before Japanese militarists can begin to draw their projected iron ring around Russia's Outer Mongolia. Tokyo's bland explanation of Mongokuo's piled-up tanks and planes was lately voiced by a member of Japan's Foreign Office: "The Mongols are striving to preserve themselves from Communists against whom they are preparing for a war of self-defense." Overlooked by the Tokyo spokesman was the fact that the nearest Chinese Communist army was 400 miles...