Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attribute to me in the Feb. 4 issue a statement that ". . . anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," that "more & more" of my wholesale electric-appliance business "is coming from 'discount houses.' " The fact is, I have never sold to nor received an order from a discount house, and in my opinion the consumer who patronizes [one] is a damned fool because he usually makes a bad investment, does not get his money's worth and seriously damages the legitimate and traditional American economy upon which the discount house is an unwarranted...
...Legion's Americanism Commission, said Peg, had "taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their...
Asked if he questioned the right of the Senate to change its legislative mind, Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright said: "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes...
...Spellmans' warehouse, the Government charged, was not big enough to store 100,000 bushels of grain in the first place. After the Spellmans started selling the grain, they took pains to fool any Government inspectors who might come along. At the top of the elevator, just below the catwalk, they hung small 275-bu. bins so that anyone looking in would think that the elevator was full. At the bottom, they kept just enough grain to cover the elevator door space, in case anyone peeked in. But they need not have been so careful. In the two years they...
...getting so that anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...