Word: disavowal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept...
...Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
...Chamber quieted he continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...