Word: ire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first press conference since succeeding to the directorship vacated yesterday by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, Landis said Mrs. Roosevelt is making a "thorough-going" shakeup in her Civilian Participation Division which has been the main target of Congressional ire. He said that whether the First Lady remains with the agency is for her to decide...
...Azuma Maru's hoped-for cargo was held up by one U.S. citizen's ire. Edward Jobbins, who manages the Wilson-Martin division of Wilson & Co., Inc. (meats) and is busy as a bee making fatty acids for the manufacture of various articles of defense, read in his Philadelphia paper one morning that the Azuma Maru had arrived in port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He failed to see why, when the East Coast was facing a shortage of petroleum products-because oil-carrying tankers had been transferred to the British-an Axis power...
...minds of its leaders. When generals and duchesses commissioned him to do their portraits, he painted them, not as they would like to look, but as they really were: droopy, anemic cuckolds, smug gangsters, smirking strumpets. He etched bloated priests abusing women and embracing money bags, barely escaped the ire of the Inquisition by labeling them with trite moral maxims. On the walls of churches he gave angels the faces of well-known prostitutes, growling as he did so: "I will cause the faithful to worship vice." He painted bag-bellied Queen Maria Luisa as a superannuated barmaid, made...
Hell immediately popped around Mr. Cudahy. The British and U. S. press, the American Legion in the U. S., resented his comparison of U. S. and Nazi soldiers. Britons steamed at his remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy...
Undergraduates were not so startled. They guessed the target of President Ruthven's ire: the campus' noisy chapter of the American Student Union, which had spent a busy spring denouncing U. S. "war plans," and failing to denounce the Communazis. Last week their guess was proved correct and President Ruthven showed that he was not fooling. To a number of Michigan students (the A. S. U. said nine), home for vacation, he sent a curt lote: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University that you cannot be readmitted to the University." Others got warnings. Pressed...