Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discarded Adam Smith's economics it cannot continue to hang, tooth & nail, to Thomas Jefferson's politics. In Los Angeles, he had merely said that if the U.S. is to have Social Security, it should be there for all.) But some GOPsters shook their heads, and Hatchet-man Harold Ickes set up the cry: Dewey is outdealing the New Deal...
...Hull rose to defend himself, Dewey promptly sent Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles as his emissary to the State Department. The U.S. people, who had known little of Foster Dulles, learned that this scholarly, experienced lawyer might be Tom Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. Whatever exuberant hatchet jobs were subsequently done on Foster Dulles because of his Wall Street connections (and Cordell Hull flatly forbade Administration orators to engage in them), his trip to Washington as Tom Dewey's agent swept away much of the feeling that Dewey would be an inadequate tyro in foreign affairs...
Seven times since early 1942 the young King and his young aides had planned to overthrow old hatchet-faced Marshal Ion Antonescu, the Nazi-loving dictator. Seven times they had to call off the plot...
Chinese Burial. By taking Wilson's side, the President set off a startlingly loud Washington uproar. Nelson's friends -who included a group of the New Deal's most expert hatchet men-called his Presidential mission a "Chinese burial." They charged that the man who was fighting for "the little fellow" was being "sent to Siberia," had been given a "kick in the teeth...
...evil that afflicts the world has one origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book is a jeweled affair, packed with all the learned rag, tag, and bobtail that has become embedded in a remarkably assimilative mind. The Laski argument is developed in sweeping assertions. The world has suffered a breakdown in values. It is hungering for a new religion. But traditional Christianity...