Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slick was a frenzied wildcatter from Pennsylvania whose boomtime oil financing became the wonder of the Southwest. He held lawyers, geologists and physicians in equal scorn and died of overwork in 1930, bequeathing his name to two oil fields, a withered oil town and Slick-Urschel Oil Co. In Oklahoma last fortnight the name Slick disappeared from the oil business through a merger of Slick-Urschel with the new Transwestern Oil of Oklahoma...
Steelmasters ascribed the raise to returning prosperity, warned that it would be promptly followed by a rise in the price of steel. C. I. O. leaders denounced it as a bribe to persuade workers against joining their union. To the mighty argument of $75,000,000 they replied with scorn. Cried Philip Murray, asserting that the raise had been decided on weeks ago and held up in the hope of crediting it to a Landon victory: "Thoroughly licked in Tuesday's election and thoroughly afraid, the steel industry is making a last belated attempt to keep workers away from...
...thought, discussion, and organization must have its first hold in the universities. Otherwise such as has marred Dudley Hall's reputation, puerile as they are and indicative of only a small percentage of the commuting body, have no proper function here and serve only to bring contempt and scorn on the instigators...
...Governor Landon made the following statement on May 26, 1933: "'Racketeers like Insull, Morgan and Van Sweringen will be driven out of finance and industry by the scorn of honest people and the strong determination of the Government.' "I ask him, in the face of this statement, if the J. P. Morgan that he classified as a racketeer is not the same J. P. Morgan that has made a large contribution to the Republican State Committee in an attempt to defeat me and the other Democratic candidates...
...factional leaders, fights over patronage, the ceaseless improvising of adroit politicians, he gives only limited and conventional portraits of the personalities involved. His Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall, John Randolph, Madison, Gallatin, Monroe, Pickering, remain remote historic figures. Only Aaron Burr, about whom Author Bowers writes with a mixture of scorn and awed surprise, emerges as a bold, treacherous, ambitious, but clearly visualized individual...