Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortcomings of the New Deal he classified in "five great categories": "moral integrity . . . personal liberty . . . financial and economic policies . . . aid for the less fortunate . . . relations to other nations." He saved for his peroration his retort to those, including Alf Landon, who lack enthusiasm for his proposed "intellectual session...
Japanese editors last week taunted that wealthy Chinese have been slack in buying Liberty Bonds, caused tortoise-spectacled Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs...
...Hyson!" Huey said as he greeted offspring No Foo Lin at the telephone Booth. "Huey're Barkin at?" was the little Shafer's retort as he Struck...
...railroad managements, more alarmed this year than ever, retort that the 70-car limit, like the proposed "excess crew" law, is a bald-faced, work-making scheme, and that talk of increased danger on long trains is twaddle. The Transportation Association of America declares that since 1922 the U. S. roads have spent $8,000,000,000 modernizing their equipment and rights of way. much of it expressly for handling long trains with safety. Train lengths have increased in recent years but employe casualties have decreased. In 1923, when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered...
...Moscow that the Government was going to ask its people to dig into their pockets for another $800,000,000 loan, but the fact that subscriptions were opened last week was whooped into headlines suggesting that Russia, provoked by Japan, had suddenly made this major war-loan gesture in retort...