Word: huffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government called Assistant Secretary of War Woodring and his Republican predecessor, Frederick Huff Payne, who signed the contracts in question. Both testified that they took full responsibility for the contracts and still regarded them as in the best interests of the Government. Then the Army prosecutor produced two used round-trip railroad tickets to San Francisco which, including Pullman tickets, cost $369.70 and were charged to Silverman's account at the Hotel Mayflower...
...sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff the Premier refused to see the farmers' delegates. Thereupon the whole 50,000 surged to the Royal Palace...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
...Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
After the parade Lord Bessborough refused to sign the distinguished visitors' book at Toronto's Old Fort, departed in a huff...