Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
House members were fairly polite to the Secretary. Crusty old Democrat Carter Glass produced a bluish bundle wrapped in rubber bands. "That bundle," he warned, "is German marks which once were worth $46,000 and they are not worth wiping your nose...
...Senator Glass: "What emergency would require further degradation of the dollar...
...Senator Glass: "You know perfectly well what I mean...
...perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where they have to take your securities to protect the ones they have already...