Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned out of his previous lucrative post as President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies. Since then he has eaten humble crow by accepting the portfolio of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in the present Cabinet of Sacred Union, wherein Raymond Poincaré is Prime Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week...
...Hooverizer Hughes's remark last week in Chicago, that "the Democrats, to take Smith's tariff plan, will have to eat more crow than the Democratic stomach can stand," the Smith retort was: ''What a delicious pot of crow the Governor [Hughes] is compelled to witness his party eating on the Federal Reserve Bank system.'' Then he announced that all Democratic members of and candidates for Congress had been telegraphed and asked if they would stand by the Smith tariff declaration. Four-fifths of these Democrats had replied in the affirmative, "the other 20% being away on campaign tours." Then...
...Cartooned to resemble both a Crow and the President...
...Every time he spoke in the West whether in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, Minnesota or Wisconsin? straight as the crow flies there came back to us, with the compliments of the progressive Governor of New York, an additional supply of crow...
...significant bit of "crow-eating" because the People's Legislative Service is the voice of LaFollettism in Wisconsin. It was founded by the late great Robert Marion LaFollette as the official organ of his Progressive Republican movement. The statement came, moreover, two days after an editorial declaration for Smith by the Madison, Wis., Capital-Times. The backer and chief stockholder of the Capital-Times is Alfred Thomas Rogers, law-partner of the late great La-Follette. Another stockholder is Senator Robert Marion LaFollette...