Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silver was elected bishop coadjutor of Kansas only to have the whole House later veto the title, 50 to 48, because Dr. Silver is a divorced man, reputedly the only divorce ever elected Episcopal bishop. When elected coadjutor of Texas later, Dr. Silver declined sooner than risk another rebuff...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...
Price Fixing. The Government's war on price-fixing received a rebuff last week when the Supreme Court upheld the right of the General Electric Co. to set both a sale and resale price on all incandescent electric bulbs manufactured under its patents. The General Electric Co. had entered into a manufacturing and selling arrangement with the Westinghouse Co. on this basis. The Government suit had contended that such a scheme was in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, and that a decision upholding it would destroy the force of the law in all cases involving...
...Rationally considered, this rejection displayed considerable mass common sense among the miners, for Premier Baldwin had already announced that the bishops proposal was not acceptable to the Government and consequently there existed no chance of putting it into effect. Shrewd Laborites deplored, however, the psychological effect of this rebuff to the potent and, in this instance, sympathetic Church of England...
Numerous British newspapers declared this letter "the most severe public rebuke ever administered by the leader of a British political party to its chief adherent." The fact that Lord Oxford and Asquith alleged as the cause of this extraordinary rebuff only a trifling party insubordination and an attack upon the Government (Conservative) party toward which the Earl has leaned so long, while Mr. George, tugged in the opposite direction, revealed the true origin of the Earl's spleen?exposed anew the gaping Liberal rift...