Word: ire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina, world's greatest cattle exporter, had given way at last on its beef. The U. S. still will not import fresh, chilled or frozen meat from the pampas, in deference to the ire of U. S. cattlemen, already roused by Franklin Roosevelt's crack that Argentine corned beef at 9? a pound is superior food for U. S. sailors to the home product at 24? a pound...
Sanctions? As the mounting list of indignities reached the light of print in London, British ire rose. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, asked in Parliament what economic reprisals were planned, answered: "I do not think we have yet reached that stage." But the Prime Minister did refer to the "high-handed and intolerably insulting treatment of British subjects" in Tientsin and complained that the Japanese military had made the Tientsin incident a "pretext for far-reaching and quite inadmissible claims." The London Times cautiously recommended that the British Government at least look into the question of economic sanctions, and Conservative...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...
...this was very disturbing to tall, red-suspendered Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, military ruler of southern Rebel Spain. Long on radiorating ability but short on generalship, General Queipo de Llano was said to have incurred the ire of El Caudillo Franco for not defending his bailiwick better. It seemed likely that El Caudillo would be forced sooner or later to pay some attention to Extremadura, perhaps transfer some badly needed troops from Catalonia...
...Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...