Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate for a round of New Deal name-calling which began with "Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago" and ended with: "Roosevelt desires that there shall be re-inflicted upon [Louisiana] the rottenest, most corruptive form of political debauchery ever known-and I don't mean maybe...
...Well, I am a hare's foot, as I said, so then I signed a statement in which I said I intended to publish all that was in the notebook. I didn't mean to publish it all, however-especially not the armament figures...
...partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance adjusters and fliers presided over by saturnine Osgood Perkins as the hard-bitten division superintendent...
...attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social responsibility that by his own act he has classified himself among the dangerous men of our time." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Arthur Holly Compton thought that "in a university, if radical viewpoints were not discussed, it would mean that such a university was intellectually stagnant...
...have availed ourselves of the rather mean stratagem of printing the Dean's statement first, and allowing the opposition the last say. For this we apologize. However, it seems to us that the facts as stated justify our actions...