Word: frumiousness
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...this the frumious Mr. Ford had watched. He had listened to paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controls-two enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second winks at, lest labor and the farmers be outraged. (This bogey had been challenged by Bernard M. Baruch, World War I defense tsar, who declared that the public will support any bill that is uniform in its treatment of all classes and all goods, if the law is fairly and evenly administered...