Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose the all-important Negro vote...
...Administration's throat (27840-117). Then the House railroaded the $2,140,000.000 Ways & Means Committee tax bill through without changing a comma. (The Treasury had asked for $10,500,000,000 in new taxes.) The Senate was set to pass both measures with equal speed and scorn...
...little fellow has the community's sincere sympathy. On his mother's side are three idiots and one jailbird of record, and nobody on the father's side of the house can count above four. With that start in life, he faces a world that will scorn and abuse and eventually hang him through no fault...
...automobiles. In return Judson promised not to "sell, give away, circulate, or dispose of any matter arising out of their marital relationship"; and not to "imply . . . that she has committed an offense involving moral turpitude . . . or . . . conducted herself in any manner which would cause her to be held in scorn, or which would damage her career...
...Critics. In his public utterances the President has often poured scorn on some willful little minority of dissidents. This time it was "a few newspapers and columnists and radio commentators." But he prepared thoughtful answers for several types of Administration critics. He took pains to reassure those who have feared that the U.S. is making, or might some day make "expedient" deals with Fascists. Said he: "The basic traditions and ideals of this Republic are being closely followed in U.S. foreign policy. "We shall not be able to claim that we have gained total victory in this...