Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young had not ousted leftovers from the Van Sweringen regime and complained that U. S. railroads are controlled by men who lack practical experience, the net summation of a week's rail-road investigation was the chairman's sharp comment on the campaign books. Said he: ". . . I resent the Democratic Committee going to people just prior to their coming here, and soliciting funds. . . . It might give the impression that people had to give money to get proper treatment...
...Bill writes his column is neither German nor Dutch nor English, but a mixture of all three. It is the dialect of the ''Pennsylvania Dutch," who number more than 150,000 in that part of the Lehigh Valley. The experts, of whom Mr. Troxell is No. 1, resent the common designation of "Pennsylvania Dutch," insist that Pennsylvania Germans is correct. The language is better suited to the ear than to the eye, hence Pumpernickle Bill's column is read aloud to family groups in over half the homes reached by the Allentown Call...
...departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting...
...vast number of people who will be buying on credit will, of course, not recognize the danger and they and the affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared...
...came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House resent...