Word: nippers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators Norris of Nebraska and Walsh of Montana led the last of the nipper-snapping against Secretary Mellon. They dug up an Aluminum Co. court case in which Mr. Mellon had deposed that he was consulted on important points of policy and from this attempted to argue that he was still in "trade or commerce...
...harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf Oil Mr. Mellon is an "owner ... in part" of these vessels...
...made itself dangerously felt. But Mr. Johnson, mechanic-president, had seen the hard time coming. He arranged with the Radio Corporation of America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly. Painter Barraud beheld a picture of popular appeal. To brighten up his canvas be borrowed a brass horn from the Gramophone Company Ltd., English subsidiary of Victor, which bought the finished picture, later pensioning Painter Barraud...