Word: crustier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dealers eye with even greater distrust. He was Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General and that President excused him from his Cabinet by appointing him to the Supreme Court in 1914. He has the reputation of doing less work than any other member of the court, of being crustier than most. New Dealers would hate to see him write an opinion on their unemployment insurance...
Hero of the Federal Reserve Act was little Carter Glass of Virginia. Last week Senator Glass, now 74, sharper in voice and crustier in manner than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...