Word: rebutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily Scripps-Howard column in which he has become one of the New Deal's sharpest critics. During the "fireside chat" Hugh Johnson took notes on what the President said. Three minutes after the chat was over, on the air at his usual time, he undertook to rebut some of his former chief's points with a promptness unprecedented for the radio. Speaking extemporaneously from his notes, he applauded the President's crop control program, warned that a continuation of New Deal spending and taxing would lead to a "distribution of poverty...
...months ago Newton D. Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, in a letter to the New York Times undertook to rebut the new interpretation of history: "From the beginning to the end of my official life in Washington, I never heard the President or any member of his Cabinet, either in conference or in private conversation, express any opinion that the United States ought to go into the War or that any commercial or financial interest, either of the United States or of any group of our citizens, would be promoted by our going...
Next day Colonel Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, No. 1 U. S. War ace, now vice president of North American Aviation, took the stand to rebut Billy Mitchell. Rickenbacker's recipe: "I would use planes to make love to Japan. I would kiss her with a few dirigibles." Chief article in his lovemaking would be a trans-Pacific airline operated jointly by the U. S. and Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire...
...debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than 6% of the delinquencies?had been foreclosed this year. Said he: "There are some individual farmers who owe everybody in the country and it's not worth while...
...President Osborn sat down, Curator Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced hurdlitchka) of the U. S. National Museum, an anthropologist, rose to rebut: "There is endless chance for further evolution and it is going on. To assume that the evolution of man is ended blocks every road to the future. . . . There is that [Biblical] belief that man was created and not evolved. Sometimes it is subconscious. But it has its effect...