Word: hateration
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...veterans who have risen by seniority to chairmanships or high rank on the eleven important committees. Connecticut's Francis Maloney and Missouri's Harry Truman are independent voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel...
Agriculture: Carlos Montenegro, 40, pockmarked, dour, good hater and trickiest politico...
Beyond Time. In 1914, Poet Leger asked the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a job in a remote country. He was finally made secretary to France's diplomatic corps in China. The hater of literary exoticism loved Peiping, not because it was exotic, but because it was "beyond time, not of it." He rented a temple in the hills. When the French Minister needed Leger he had to send a special courier...
...years before Munich Sir Walter Citrine, beaver-eyed, baby-faced boss of the British trade unions, was called a Red-hater. He visited the Soviet Union in 1935, wrote a chilly book called I Search for Truth in Russia. Late in 1941, when the Germans were pressing against the western suburbs and the U.S. was not yet in the war, Sir Walter went again to Moscow. He went with a smile, but his hosts remembered and they were chilly. Back in London, he found the faces of the resisting Russians unforgettable. He wrote of the heroic Red Army, the magnificent...
...labor's enemies. ... I definitely feel that our situation here at home is most serious, and that by such legislation [to give jobs to returning soldiers without making them join unions] our Congress could free honest labor from racketeers and parasites. ... I am not a labor hater. I believe in honest labor unions who are doing their darndest to turn out the weapons we need...