Word: dander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana the crashing of rifle fire and bombs kept citizens indoors behind closed shutters. U. S. businessmen were astonished to get anonymous warnings to "close up and leave the country within three days." His dander up, Mendieta declared first a "state of siege," then a "state of war," then he declared all the striking labor unions dissolved. Said he: "I have the duty of my post to complete: first, because I am the President of the Republic; second, because I am Carlos Mendieta; and, third, because I am a leader- a fact I have never wanted to make...
Chairman Nye, as usual, proved a heavy-handed cross-examiner and got little information without aid from the Committee's investigator, Stephen Raushenbush. Little more effective was plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who got everybody's dander up by expressing extraneous personal opinions, by taking the attitude that all the witnesses were trying to put something over on the Committee. Best of the Senatorial inquisitors was Michigan's Senator Vandenberg. Yet with all the dramatic material offered by a munitions inquiry, the best dirt the Committee could...
...dander of Old Paul had been rising for several days. In the first place the President of Germany, who is Honorary President of the patriotic but illegal Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet") military organization, had quarreled on Stahlhelm's behalf with the Government of Prussia...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...