Word: snarling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed Carter Glass, who has snarled at the New Deal's "invasion" of States' rights, who turned down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick...
...Labor is almost as remote as the one in China. On the Pacific Coast, in Michigan, Iowa, Texas, in many and many a local labor federation, C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists still work together for their common aims while their testy big shots snarl in the headlines. Last week this harmony had reached such proportions as to demand the attention of A. F. of L.'s national spokesman...
...brief return to power in 1932 when he swung the Roosevelt-Garner nomination. But Roosevelt would have none of Hearst, so Hearst turned to snarl at the "Raw Deal" and even boosted his old enemy, Al Smith, for President. Hearst staked his "reputation as a prophet" on Landon's election in 1936. When Roosevelt was reelected he tried to do a turnabout, but nobody cared any more...
Random etiquette: Don't snarl at waiters and taxi drivers. CLEAN YOUR SIDEWALK, CURB YOUR...
...Given Rights of Personality," to the accompaniment of rude whistles (which he ignored) from Nazis in his congregation. Last week, at the height of Germany's pogroms, Cardinal Faulhaber asked for police protection for the Catholic clergy. Instead he received, from District Leader Adolf Wagner, a snarl: "If Faulhaber mends his ways, he will be protected better than the police can protect him." Thereupon a Nazi mob ganged up to the Cardinal's palace, smashed all the windows within stone's throw...