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...enemies, Director Hoover has plenty. They are not only men with guns in their hands and murder in their hearts. They are political lawyers who resent the Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...Association of Aviation Editors last week that the development of a $700 plane had not materialized because the $500,000 allotment promised by PWA had been withheld as a result of the activities of an aircraft manufacturers' lobby. Many light plane manufacturers believe Mr. Vidal is "chasing rainbows," resent his "flivver plane" program because they feel it causes sales resistance to the present product...
...only those who are concerned with the theatre but everyone who wants to preserve the American heritage of civil liberties will bitterly resent this arbitrary suppression of a play which has been widely acclaimed.'" That quotation from your article "AgitProp" in TIME, June 17 is an excellent expression of what we in Boston are now fighting...
Since most foreigners hotly resent the dumping abroad of German goods at below-cost-of-production prices, Economics Minister & Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has moved with extreme wariness in setting up the 1,000,000,000 mark ($400,000,000) revolving fund to force German exports out upon the world...
...They are good at handling complaints. They are conservative, cautious, prefer not to make plans alone, would not like to be criminal lawyers or stockbrokers, seldom try to bluff their way past doormen. They like clergymen and teetotalers more than the other groups do; are not inclined to daydream; resent criticism. They rather like to argue which they do without losing their tempers...