Word: rabidness
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...rumors of its contents flew. News-tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though...
...even the most rabid partisan can carp and criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
...busy proving itself legally right that it disregarded the fact that most of the country was proving it morally wrong. The curt refusal of Mr. Sloan to sit in on a conference with Miss Perkins and the labor leaders has done more damage to his cause than a hundred rabid speeches by Mr. Lewis ever could...
...greatest number of wads occur just under the edge of the seats. Certain seats show many more exhausted lumps than others, indicating occupancy by rabid chicle-chewers...
...York News (circulation: 1,600,000), has given Franklin Roosevelt the wholehearted support of the nation's biggest newspaper; Partner Robert Rutherford McCormick, as boss of the House's Chicago Tribune (circulation: 784,000), has made the nation's second biggest newspaper its most rabid anti-Roosevelt sheet. In a Presidential campaign, a house thus divided against itself cannot fail...