Word: rawest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspired a fervent, devoted loyalty. They remember him as the man who led the Exchange through the worst years of the worst U. S. depression. Almost single-handed he directed the fight which resulted in the removal from the Stock Exchange Control Bill in Washington of most of its rawest and most of its unworkable provisions. And under him the Exchange got through its first year of Federal regulation without serious mishap. His friends believe the burly onetime Harvard oarsman made the best of a bad situation, that he has been unjustly criticized, that he deserves the vindication of another...
...petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred, the advocates of the bill, led by Michigan's McLeod who called the ruse "one of the rawest things I've ever heard of," completed their petition, hoped to force its consideration in spite of the trick played on them. They even circulated for signature a manifesto announcing that they would not allow Congress to adjourn until the bill had been voted on. The Hearst Press...
...heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero, he worked as hard as the rawest scrub in football practice this season...
Major saw Bolshevism at its worst and rawest. Recently he founded Norway's Nazi Party, went storming up & down the land in Hitler fashion "To save Norway from our Bolsheviks!" (i. e. Laborites...
...years ago New South Wales tried to repudiate the interest on its State debt (TIME, April 6, 1931 et seq.). The Crown-appointed Governor finally forced the Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, out of office (TIME, May 23). Last week the Commonwealth's biggest and rawest state, Western Australia, voted to secede from the Commonwealth...