Word: blusterer
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...undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly put up with provoking frontier incidents, merely writing diplomatic notes which the Japanese Foreign Office sometimes answered, sometimes ignored. But with Soviet-Mongol forces actually showing fight last week Japanese War Minister Kawashima suddenly found it opportune to tell Tokyo...
...take any pictures!" commanded President Roosevelt's No. 2 White House aide, "and nothing must be written about this." Cameramen meekly obeyed, but news hawks did not see why they should suppress a newsworthy account of New Dealers fraternizing socially with "the Power Trust." Publisher Carter began to bluster...
...Congress of Revolution moved to adjourn, Keynoter Dimitroff urged "Exert your efforts with cunning!" This in the U. S. should take the form of discreet Communist infiltration into labor and religious groups hitherto repelled by Communist bluster, according to Comrade Dimitroff. Mild U. S. Socialists were marked for especially considerate attention by earnest Earl Browder, Secretary of the U. S. Communist Party...
...editorial "Futile Bluster" blithely dismisses the New England textile problem by advising New England to "transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity." Conceding the superficiality of the rumpus over the processing tax and Hearst's Japanese situation, we find that this problem presents many difficulties not covered by the editorial...
Prospects of a steel strike amounted to little more than some loud bluster by William J. Spang, leader of Steel's "rank & file." But his first job was not to coerce steelmasters but to settle his factional feud with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers' old President Michael Tighe...