Word: flout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the heavily industrial New England, Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes states had beaten down an attempt by Alabama's Congressman Albert Rains to force dispersal of new defense plants into less populated inland areas. Cried House Republican Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts: "When [the President] can so flout the will of the Congress, we ... might as well shut up shop and go home." Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green, a Democrat, insisted that it was easier to build defenses for "compact industrial areas" than "scattered plants." Of the Easterners, only Massachusetts' air-minded Senator Henry...