Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the hotel was bedlam, and wide open for the multitude of delegates to shake hands, slap backs, bend elbows, rub shoulder^ with half-a-dozen Cabinet members, governors by the dozen, Senators by the score. In such a crowd Ambassadors, mayors, Representatives and children of the President were small potatoes indeed...
...resent being called a sucker. That's a low-down insult, a slap at all my buddies who went west, as well as those of us still carrying on. Would World Peaceways dare tell any Gold Star Mother her son was a sucker...
Such a direct slap across the face made His Majesty's Government uncomfortable, but it by no means closed the British Cabinet split, by no means halted new hints and proposals by Mr. Eden to Dr. von Hoesch...
...Germany was back on the "Me und Gott" standard of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin still remained irresolute. Britain's Ambassador to Germany, Sir Eric Phipps, "almost begged" Realmleader Hitler to send a delegation to London unconditionally. Instead the Destiny-guided Realmleader came back with another slap. As his price for sending a delegation to London he asked Britain to get from all nations concerned promises that they will make Adolf Hitler's terms the basis of negotiation. These terms and Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Realmleader designated as "a whole, the component...
Discipline. Chief of Staff Craig, reading General Hagood's testimony in the Washington Star, wrote his subordinate to ask whether he had really said what was reported. Fourteen days later "by direction of the President" General Hagood was deprived of his Corps Area command-a terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should...