Word: flaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First to flay Farm Board Chairman Legge for his conference with Chairman Barnes was Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee who wrote...
...Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson...
Natural was it for Edward Flore, the Union's president, to flay Prohibition, to denounce the 18th Amendment as "this solitary sumptuary statute . . . which has so severely hurt our country...
...million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...
...could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash. He exercised that right last week most rashly when he rose to flay Chancellor Winston Churchill's fifth and present Budget (TIME, April 22). The Chancellor (Conservative) had abolished the tax on tea which Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail...