Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really as bad as all that? The committee, well aware of Young's rabid animosity towards what he calls "goddamned bankers," was impressed but far from convinced. Unless other RFC dealings, which it began to investigate this week, prove to be much worse, the committee will probably recommend that RFC be allowed to live, though with drastically reduced powers...
...there a case against David Lilienthal? Thus far his principal opponents-rallying around Tennessee's Senator McKellar-had been rabid anti-New Dealers, anti-Semites, bitter foes of Government control, or men who insisted that the Atomic Energy Commission chairman should be above the suspicion they themselves had cast. Their case had been based on politics, prejudice and pork-barreling.* Last week Ohio's Senator Robert Taft thought he had other grounds for opposition...
...prophetically at the Chicago Student Conference and saw it as anything from worthless to dangerous. They feared that the conference would come up with plans for merely another violently partisan youth organization that would make much political noise and have little practical use as far as the average, non-rabid student was concerned. But the 358 delegates came into the new year with a new kind of plan, a plan that is based on the interests of students as students, and not as members of political or religious groups. Nineteen such groups had delegates present, but none made efforts...
...large, youngish (37) man who looks something like a more alert Primo Carnera, he likes to wrestle playfully with friends and pull out their neckties. He became a rabid planner. Last winter, with the general exodus of planners from the Truman Administration, Nathan also left and organized the Robert R. Nathan Associates...
...beat New Dealing incumbent Emily Taft Douglas for Illinois Representative-at-Large. Stratton jumped into politics at 26, was elected Illinois Representative-at-Large in 1940 chiefly on the reputation of his father, ex-Illinois Secretary of State William J. Stratton. In Washington he distinguished himself as a rabid isolationist, and by letting his frank be used for the mailing of pro-German propaganda. He came back this year partly on the Republican tide, partly because Illinois Governor Dwight Green did not want him in a state...