Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to waste any time in protesting any further against the appropriation by the Government of nearly $4,000,000,000 of gold, not one dollar of which it ever lifted its finger to honestly acquire, not a dollar of it. ... No other civilized nation on the face of the globe has ever seized the gold of its central bank...
...free trade. Old school Tennessee Democrat that he is, Secretary Hull knows well that present manifestations of the New Deal have definitely scuttled the Democratic Party's traditional low tariff policy, that the U. S. will probably raise rather than lower its tariffs. Nevertheless, smiling over the finger bowls. Secretary Hull said: "The toast is a tribute to the enlightened policy upon which President Roosevelt has embarked...
...That junket of McCooey's down to the White House was just to make it look as though he still has his finger in the pie," said a Quayle spokesman. "He is positively...
...Oklahoma City an editor sitting before his littered desk, flicked his cigaret to the floor, and turning deliberately to his typewriter put his finger on the right Key. He wrote: "Roosevelt has bet the country's last dollar on a single card and if he wins the result will be glorious...
...guests of his Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights* examples of Nazi tricks to evade the boycott. On a glove wrathfully displayed by Lawyer Untermyer the words "Made in Germany" appear only on the inner surface of one finger tip. Holding up a doll, Boycotter Untermyer cried : "You have to undress this lady to determine the country of her origin. That is not very nice. The stamp 'Made in Germany' is under her dress. Such tactics are smuggling!" To put the anti-Nazi efforts further on a non-sectarian plane, Gentile James G. McDonald...