Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard Nebraska's Senator Norris flay...
...Franklin-Bouillon seemed to be not only ready but fairly spoiling to flay M. Briand. The night before, addressing a banquet of Briand foes, he had shouted...
Last week the Ohio board of film censors refused to permit The Big House, Hearst (Cosmopolitan) editorial cinema designed to flay prison conditions in the U. S. (TIME, July 7), to be shown anywhere in Ohio. The board's reason: "The display of such films is harmful to the boys & girls of Ohio." Commented Chairman Henry G. Brunner of the state Democratic executive committee: "It is apparent that the state [Republican] administration fears the picture would revive interest in the Ohio penitentiary fire, costing 320 lives because it portrays overcrowding and other prison evils involved in that disaster...
...Edwin Charles Ernst, 45, of St. Louis, president of the new Radiological Research Institute, took the occasion to flay U. S. manufacturers of X-ray tubes. Bold was his charge: "The larger companies of unlimited financial resources apparently limit their researches and developments of improved apparatus or X-ray tubes to those improvements that promise large profits. One such organization in this country controls the patent rights to manufacture X-ray tubes exclusively** and as a result charges prohibitory prices [$125~$450] for the necessary tubes of the physicians who must purchase them for X-ray diagnosis and the treatment...
...once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster General Brown was not a Harding Gangster, either, but he now controls the bulk of the party's patronage...