Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further emphasized that Hero Schlageter was a foe of Marxism as much as of France...
...even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander...
...Department of Agriculture scientists reported progress in their fight against downy mildew, foe of hops. ¶From Chicago's Wahl-Henius Institute were graduated 24 brewmasters, the first class in 17 years. Orated Dr. Max Henius: "Make all efforts to keep the industry on the highest level, free from the fetters of politics and the saloon." ¶By working 24 hours a day a St. Joseph, Mo. factory was turning out ten tons of pretzels per day. Orders were two months behind...
Instantly President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
...Michigan and the world believed fortnight ago that Henry Ford, veteran foe of bankers, was about to become the State's greatest banker by taking over the strapped Guardian National and First National of Detroit and running them under his own novel ideas ("The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money"). Last week they learned that both banks had refused the Ford offer, changed their minds, were about to reorganize and carry on under new Federal and State emergency legislation. Delay in adopting the latter was partly traceable to antagonism between Detroit...