Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus His Majesty's Government were again profiting last week from the natural tendency of the typical John Bull never to take Central European troubles seriously, his incurable taste for chuckling with the rulers of the British Empire at the rest of the cockeyed world...
...once more refused to answer Presidential questions, Franklin Roosevelt with a great show of forbearance extended the hearing another three days. When three days later Mr. Morgan reaffirmed his determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread, Franklin Roosevelt, who can be as bull-headed as anyone else, laid down his ultimatum, announced that if the Chairman would not agree to cooperate with his inquiry with-in 24 hours he must either resign or face suspension...
...twelve-year low. It soon appeared that the great agglomerations of French capital are considerably less frightened of Hitler than of Stalin and his Communists in France. The mere prospect that a National Government was perhaps going to be formed in Paris excluding the Reds was taken as a bull point, French capitalists dumped pounds, gulden and Swiss francs (all of which declined) and bought French francs (which rose) in an optimistic Paris atmosphere-while Austria was being invaded...
...hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad land grants that his legislative activities were notorious even in those wide-open times. Then he reversed himself and began attacking the concentration of wealth, led the radical Farmers' Alliance, wrote best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for many offices, and died...
This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...