Word: popguns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this record Scripps-Howard's astute Columnist Raymond Clapper found little to praise. "So far as the British are concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
...verbal bullets that tore the air in the Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson campaign made 1940's pot shots sound like popgun plips...
...some Republicans last week that at last they had an Issue. For seven years, while the New Deal juggernaut squnched over the political battlefield, the G. O. P. had vainly whipped up little issues, had vainly sought an issue that would stand up under fire. The G. O. P. popgun fusillade was futile, their cannons fired only blanks, their bombers dropped duds or boomerangs...