Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington next day the onetime Secretary of the Treasury let fly one of the longest and angriest statements of his 79 years: "The action ... is politics of the crudest sort! I am as much in the dark as anyone. . . . For many months now a campaign of character-wrecking and abuse has been conducted against me. . . . I know there has been no evasion of taxes on my part...
...five long years Louisiana has been held fast in the political fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...
Last week lumbering, poker-faced Harry Sinclair (who is the crudest practical-joker among U. S. tycoons) again faced a circle of investigating Senators who wanted to know why the chairman of a competing oil company later merged with Sinclair Consolidated, had received a 2½% cut in the $12,000,000 profits of the 1928-29 Sinclair stockmarket pool. Prairie Oil's William Samuel Fitzpatrick had not been a syndicate member and the pool's manager Arthur Cutten had been able to shed no light on the transaction (TIME, Nov. 20). Haggard from a recent illness, Harry...
...admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...
...scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese. What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such. Tokyo knew last week that...