Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11 U.S. spokesman for the often exploited, inevitably neglected Indian. "Terrible Harold" Ickes, the new Interior Secretary, gave Collier the job of Commissioner. The crusader for Indian justice resolved...
...recently came a note of reassurance from abashed users of the opprobrious phrase. Stars & Stripes Reporter Jimmy Cannon had asked a group of soldiers at the front how they felt. He reported: they don't give a damn what they're called...
...have any hands until a few years ago. And then those filthy pigeons migrated out from Boston and they all sat on Mem's clock hands last spring and people missed their classes. But what peeved Father Time now was that Mem clock had bowed to the elements--the damn thing was frozen stiff...
...novel of its kind: in his worthy effort to be scrupulously just, Author Carter often sounds more like an honest broker than an imaginative novelist. Like most just men he sounds best when he lets go-as when Editor Mabry bellows: "They lynch up north, and a damn sight more people than we do. Only they call them race riots...
...holds. Said one Cabinet member: "When Tommy Corcoran was in power and would telephone someone to get something done, that person never really knew whether it was something the President wanted or something which merely interested Thomas Gardner Corcoran. When Hopkins telephones, the man on the other end knows damn well that it's something the President wants." Hopkins' 1000% loyalty to the President is deplored by many but questioned by no one. Yet there were other loyal New Dealers who fell by the wayside...