Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation, which includes a ban on damage suits against the Government, was passed last spring but is not yet effective. Most Canadian quidnuncs suspected the Liberal Premier of trying to bluff the Quebec power companies into a speedy revision of the onerous terms but the mere hint of repudiation made conservatives throughout the British Empire raise their hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift...
...circulation of Hearst's newspapers must be falling off. The New York American has evidently found the Collegiate red scare insufficient and has therefore added a Fascist or "black" scare to its already horror-stricken editorial page. All in the same breath, with no hint of the fact that in itself it has recently been driving towards Fascism, it now violently and somewhat ludicrously attacks both Communism and Fascism in the schools and colleges. In heavy type, it urges American parents to "STOP SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO INFECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND EXPOSING THEM TO THESE POISONOUS ALIEN PLAGUES...
...consult him. For he is recognized as a wise old man of Congress. A word from him and the strategy of handling a bill may be changed overnight. Seldom does he speak of the merits of a bill, but to those who want to know he drops a hint of how a bill may be passed. That work relief was finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform...
Thus he is a very useful helper to the New Deal. When he dropped a hint, to Franklin Roosevelt's annoyance, that Congressmen would be doing the President a favor if they passed the Bonus over his veto, there is little doubt that he was trying to be politically helpful by killing the Bonus issue before the next election...
...Texarkana, Tex., in 1912, Charles Settle's Leghorn hen laid torpedo-shaped eggs that tapered at both ends. On the basis of that hint he went on record as predicting a world war in two years. Last week one of Settle's Minorca hens laid torpedo-shaped eggs. Said Farmer Settle: "If another war doesn't break out within two years then my hen doesn't know her business...