Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...looked less happy than it did last week when Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board returned to Washington from a swing through the suntanned wheat belt (TIME, July 21). Chairman Legge had harangued planters on the economic necessity of reducing wheat acreage to eliminate their surplus. Their retort, through their Governors and Senators, was a demand for the farm board to buy more wheat and more and more until the surplus vanished and the price went up from 60? per bu. Already staggering under more wheat than the whole state of Nebraska produces in a year. Chairman Legge...
...hostile to a Habsburg restoration in Hungary!" abruptly announced Prime Minister Juliu Maniu of Rumania last week. Meanwhile the Prime Minister of Hungary, brusque Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen was packing up for a visit to London, but found time to dictate a retort published by the Budapest Pesti Hirlap in which he said: ''All talk about a personal union of Hungary with Rumania under the crown of King Carol II is nonsense-utter nonsense...
...Retort. In the House of Representatives Congressman Knutson of Minnesota, Republican whip, gave the standard G. 0. P. reply to these criticisms: "Big business wants free and unrestricted commerce between nations. They want to manufacture in the cheap markets and sell in our markets. General Motors owns and operates large automobile factories in Germany and to bring their products into the U. S. they must have low import duties...
When Judge Parker's friends charged that his critics were playing small politics in opposing his confirmation, a neat retort was turned up in the form of a confidential letter to the White House which had inadvertently got into the judiciary committee files. This letter was from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon, a North Carolinian, to Walter Newton, political secretary to President Hoover, written three days after the death of Justice Sanford. Excerpts: "North Carolina gave President Hoover 65,000 majority. It carries more hope of future permanent alignment with the Republican party than any other...