Word: foe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatening to oust a member of the Hearst press from the meeting, the John Reed Society held their first session of the year in Phillips Brooks House last night with about thirty members attending. Baiting the Hearst reporter as a biased foe to Communism and Socialism, members of the Society held a lively discussion as to whether news of their meeting should reach the public through the Hearst press, sworn foe against the principles of the group...
...other leading figures in the Republican set-up of much sounder calibre. Frank Knox, a bombastic publisher and bitter foe of William Randolph Hearst, has called a truce in the Chicago newspaper war for the duration of the campaign, bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will...
Bolder was the overlapping American Veterans Association, longtime foe of the Bonus. In a full-page Cleveland Plain Dealer advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or disability. We will oppose this demand with every resource at our command. We invite your support in this fight, and urge that your convention declare to the public in unmistakable language where the American Legion stands on this issue...
...time had come, decided the Democratic Presidential nominee last week, to break his silence on the Red issue, simultaneously strike a hard blow at his prime journalistic foe. A new Hearst campaign against him, he learned, was to begin on Sunday. Few hours after his return to the White House from Harvard on Saturday, the President issued a strategic statement over the signature of his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early...
...soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode...