Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant was the fact that this proposal, which at any previous GOP pre-convention gathering would have been dismissed as raving lunacy, was dismissed in Cleveland last week as merely unstrategic and impractical. Cracked Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper: "Republicans won't win this election by operating a comfort station for anti-New Deal Democrats...
...President had hardly set the stage with his Manhattan speech for a campaign debate on economics before another amateur economist, generally friendly to the New Deal, cracked back at his statement that reduction of manufacturing costs means not more purchasing power, but less. Wrote Scripps-Howard Pundit Raymond Clapper...
Memorial Hall's perambulating bell clapper was out on the make again yesterday morning, but Colonel Apted '08, maintaining an admirable calm, showed that he had taken to heart his earlier Boy Scout training, and was prepared with a new, twenty pound ringer, from his private collection...
...story which Mr. Clements told his friends was reported by Scripps-Howard's Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper as follows: "Although young Clements had occasionally to 'correct' some of the ill-advised political statements of Dr. Townsend, they went along fairly well until last November, when TIME magazine printed an article picturing Mr. Clements as the real brains of the Townsend movement and Dr. Townsend as his 'stooge' [TIME, Nov. 4], This publication, according to the story current here, infuriated Dr. Townsend. From then on he and Mr. Clements were at swords' points...
Cracked Scripps-Howard's Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Why doesn't the Black Committee seize the telegrams of prominent Democrats who have been selling their influence with the Administration for fat legal fees? If we are going in for Nazi methods, there is no use being squeamish about...