Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though not as crude as President Grant's coup adding two members to the high bench to win majority approval of his legal tender law, Mr. Roosevelt's proposal, in its political sense, is designed to achieve the same end. And because that purpose sticks out like a sore thumb, the President...
...Father Gapon's peaceful petitioners were shot down in hundreds outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, while Mukden was lost and the Russian Navy went to destruction in Tsushima. The Kaiser rattled his sabre at Tangier, made a crude attempt to trick Tsar Nicholas into an alliance. Mr. Balfour, innocuous leader of England's Conservatives, sank into innocuous desuetude...
John L. Lewis' crude presentation of his campaign I. O. U. to Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight, his demand that the President now repay his political debt to Mr. Lewis by joining him in his war on General Motors (TIME, Feb. 1), put the New Deal in a highly uncomfortable position. By forcing the President to hand the C. I. O. chieftain a veiled but unmistakable rebuke, it left the New Deal appearing to side, against 3,500,000 friends, with those onetime pillars of the Liberty League, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and the du Ponts...
...born in the Moldavian Hills in 1881. He used to listen to the songs of gypsies and repeat them on a crude, three-stringed fiddle. At 7, his father tried to enter him in Vienna Conservatory. Master Hellmesberger squinted over his spectacles, growled that the Conservatory was "not a cradle," took the boy in grudgingly. Four years later young Georges won first prizes in violin and harmony...
Throughout 1936 while other commodities were booming upward the average price of crude oil remained steady around $1.05 per bbl. Late in the year Dan Moran's Continental Oil and Edwin B. Reeser's Barnsdall Oil announced that they would open the play in 1937 with a 17? boost. This they did, but their fellow oilmen stayed out of the game, creating a dual price level in mid-continent territory. Then last week the rest of the industry decided to jack their prices not 17? but 12?, and Messrs. Moran & Reeser had to come down. Uniform posted prices...