Word: riles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his old-fashioned gold spectacles planted firmly on his nose, Socialist Attlee spoke in his flat, toneless voice. The friendship of the U.S. was essential, he said. But "if there are differences, they should be stated." His theme was that vigorous U.S. policies in Asia might rile the touchy Communists and set off a world war with H-bombs. Said Attlee: "We are as anti-Communist as the U.S. . . . We oppose aggression, we oppose Communist infiltration tactics, we recognize the need for adequate strength; but we stand for peaceful coexistence...
...people who . . . look on Senator Douglas as a presidential candidate." When Douglas once more disavowed any such ambitions, Arvey mentioned his liking for Ike Eisenhower, whom Arvey backed for a while in 1948 when he, like many of the Democratic regulars, thought Truman was through. This was calculated to rile Harry Truman, and it did. Asked at his press conference about it, the President snapped that Arvey went off half-cocked once before. The President was still determined to teach Messrs. Douglas and Arvey a lesson in party loyalty-even if the price was a senatorial lesson in the dangers...
Such front-page ear-boxings have earned the determinedly vigilant Journal the title of Milwaukee's "conscience" or "Dutch Uncle." Though meant as praise, such phrases only serve to rile up the Journal's boss, Harry J. Grant, choleric, determinedly vigilant chairman of the Journal's board of directors. Says Grant : "Damn it, I'm not anybody's Dutch Uncle. I'm just in the newspaper business . . ." Journalist Grant's devotion to the news had brought handsome returns. Last week Media Records reported that the evening Journal (circ...