Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irreconcilably opposed remained President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. "There are a great many people in America," said he darkly, "who are pleased and satisfied because the American Federation of Labor has refused to compromise and stands -now as it always has. a foe to Communism and to the acceptance of the Communistic philosophy...
Abroad, Tokyo was the only capital-except Moscow (see p. 14)-in which U. S.-Russian recognition created any stir. Tokyo papers printed screaming extras. Japanese, who mortally fear any aid the U. S. may give to Russia, their traditional foe, read the extras with pounding pulses. Everything, realists realize, now depends upon the size of credits which the U. S. proceeds to extend to Russia, notorious for her reluctance to pay in cash, her insistence on long rather than short-term credits. As the President went off to Warm Springs (see p. 7), Comrade Litvinoff stayed in Washington...
Candidates McKee and LaGuardia were fighting the contest bitterly. LaGuardia accused McKee of hounding a Seabury investigation witness to death, of reinstating a dismissed assistant when the assistant threatened to report McKee's misdoings as Aldermanic President, of being a Jew-baiter, a foe of women's suffrage. McKee accused LaGuardia of being a Communist, a liar. Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee...
...agree on terms. Oil men thought, however, that a more potent reason for abandoning the deal was the question of price-fixing, which had not only split wide open the oil industry but the happy Standard family as well. Mr. Teagle is price-fixing's ablest and loudest foe. Mr. Kingsbury is one of the Administration's heartiest supporters...
...fierce-fighting men of County Kerry had a fine riot last week. Thousands of them, especially the frisky young ones, think there is no finer man in Ireland than Free State President Eamon de Valera of the long gozzle and wild hair. When they heard that his No. 1 foe. bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful...