Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Byrns, Rules Chairman O'Connor, House Leader Bankhead and Whip Boland made every preparation to put the North Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor...
...bogey rose again to haunt them after 218 Representatives had signed a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. First by a vote of 220-to-153, then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill has no more chance of passage in the House than anything in the world, and you can bet your bottom dollar on that...
First proposed by Leland Stanford in 1867, possibility of a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland was pooh-poohed for two generations. In 1929 President Hoover, whose Palo Alto home is in the Bay neighborhood, and California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young formed a bridge commission. The commission decided the bridge was physically possible. Reconstruction Finance Corp. made it financially so with a loan of $61,400,000. In July 1933, work began...
Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
...going, except for the damage of frozen ground, not so severe on horses." But to hedge-jumping British riders U. S. post-&-rail fences seem high and hard. Author Peters calls the Prince of Wales Va much maligned gentleman," implies he iFa first-rate rider. Western bronco-busters he pooh-poohs, says they are "champions . . . but not of good riding...