Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover, so often unlucky, picked a bad day in which to flay short wheat speculators as the cause of depressed prices. Almost at the same hour the Department of Agriculture was distributing its July 1 wheat crop estimate. This year's anticipated harvest was set at 869,013,000 bu., an increase of 5.583,000 bu. over last year's bumper crop. Such harvests stack one surplus on top of another, send prices down correspondingly. Acreage which the Farm Board has been pleading with growers to reduce 20% was cut less than 5%. While flaying short- sellers...
...Great Britain, where the Labor Party is Socialist in platform and doctrine, Socialist Ramsay MacDonald was urged by his hotter-headed Clydeside followers to flay the Encyclical. But he kept his tem per, mildly said: "I shall wait for an interpretation by some Catholic dignitary in this country." Not until last week did the interpretation come, from Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster...
Others voted with Dr. Matthews to applaud those who carry through "the biggest job in the world . . . of making a successful home" and to flay those who "pandering to the weaknesses of human nature for thirty pieces of silver . . . unfortunately find ways to gratify their passions without the responsibilities of marriage and who, like the harlot of old, wipe their mouths, and say I have not sinned...
Tariff Grapple. In Europe's onslaught against U. S. tariffs last week Briton Bell also led. Too much of a gentleman to flay by name the country in which he was a guest, Banker Bell politely remarked: ''Tariffs, as I see them, are the intrusion into economic well-being of the cannon and the machine gun, the high explosive, the poison...
...profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness and even earned him requests not to ride out with other gentlemen and their ladies. But his friends like him as warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group got going with an inaugural steeplechase for a cup put up by the Duke of Beaufort. Last...