Word: rubberstamping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dedicating a WPA swimming pool in the small French-speaking city of Opelousas, Governor Long announced that he intended to investigate every complaint of wrongdoing on the part of State officials. He hotly denied that as Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned...
...said he would "put some one to work on it." He fixed the salaries of his secretary and purchasing counsellor at $5,000 each (La Follette paid Duncan $4,800), and, in ink as green as the suits he affects, hand-signed 100 notarial certificates, which Governors usually rubberstamp. Newshawks got the impression that green Governor Heil had yet made no real headway with his economy budget, would not have it ready before its due date, February...
Just how Señor Quezon was going to turn the not too favorable situation to his advantage, no one last week could say for sure. However, Mr. Quezon, being virtu ally a political dictator and having got from his rubberstamp, unicameral Legislature more power than Franklin Roosevelt has yet dreamed of, recently accepted from his legislative branch full power to raise and lower tariffs. The U. S. might now veto his use of it. If, however, he can get independence or some form of autonomy before 1940, he can with the greatest of ease lower tariffs on Japanese goods...
...police and firemen throughout the State, fix utility rates, impose property taxes, run the State Bar Association, let any of his hillbilly supporters off from paying their debts for two years. Last week Senator Long piped his Legislators back to Baton Rouge for their third special session, had them rubberstamp this month's batch of 33 more bills cleaning up odds & ends of patronage, power and revenge which he had previously overlooked...
...life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look forward to the volumes still to come...