Word: pipsqueak
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Satisfied with his record-breaking political leap from the large charge that Hearst bosses Landon to the pipsqueak proof that Hearst advised against too many Landon speeches, Secretary Ickes concluded: "Hearst over Topeka! Do the American people want it to be Hearst over the White House...
...potato growers this official red tape may prove worthwhile if the price of potatoes is boosted. For the rest of the 3,000,000 potato raisers it means nothing but trouble & tribulation. Only exception to getting a quota or becoming a criminal is for those pipsqueak farmers who regularly sell not more than five bushels of potatoes a year...
...State Department studies of neutrality legislation might soon give him something to say on the subject. Four months later the State Department was rudely roused from its studies when Senators Gerald Nye, Bennett Clark & friends, fired with a passion for peace as a result of their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to snatch back its partial approval...
...there. It got the Associated Press to adopt a five-day week, failed to win general pay rises from the Cleveland News. It won concessions on hours, wages and job-security from Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, failed to get a written contract. It won a pipsqueak boycott against the Jamaica Long Island Press, suffered sharp internal pains because some Guild elements objected to the "labor union tendencies" of President Heywood Broun...
This Man is Mine is a pipsqueak problem play afflicted with banality and complications. Typical speech (Bellamy to Cummings): "You and I belong to each other...