Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the subsidy question was all tangled up with patronage. Congress was in a rage because Leon had tried to be nonpolitical with his OPA appointments-the biggest potential patronage pool the U.S. has seen in years. To "discipline" him Congress got set to slash his $161,000,000 budget to finance his price-control army. It had also refused to authorize subsidies for any price-ceiling casualties except primary producers (like farmers). And it had refused to vote any money at all for any kind of price-ceiling subsidy...
...heat that finally sent Congressmen's rage sky-high was Columnist Raymond Clapper's remark: "People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress...
...groups were trying hard to convert into pro-war sentiment the quite comprehensible rage of the Mexican people against the Nazis who had killed 13 of the Potrero del Llano's 35-man crew, 14 of the Faja de Oro's 41. A procession of the Potrero's survivors, bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where...
Kindelberger's blast made automen turn rage-red. WPB's auto chief, Ernie Kanzler, branded it "perfectly ridiculous." G.M.'s* Fisher Body division said that it has shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...
...Hordes of officials and quasi-officials demanded X cards (entitling them to all the gas they wanted). A resident of Barnstable, Cape Cod purpled with rage when offered an A card, turned the card down and stalked...