Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News wrote: "The war is a washout-figuratively and actually." Rain had reduced the Cambrai plain to a snipe bog, and "no gun has yet been fired in anger." Wire enclosures were built to hold German prisoners, but stood empty...
...motor industry's sales were small, last week its purchases-of one material, at least-were big. The buying power of Detroit itself is in the hands of auto purchasing agents, the best bargain hunters in big-time business. To them every posted price is a target to snipe at. They did their 1938 steel buying in two big lots, each time at their own price. Using as bait bigger orders than the steel industry has seen in some time, they are again angling for a steel price cut. Back in the days of Judge Gary, neither Henry Ford...
...President this year was Orval Adams of the Utah State National Bank, Salt Lake City. In the three years since he rose on the convention floor to propose that bankers boycott U. S. bonds, Orval Adams has rarely missed a chance to snipe at the New Deal. Last week was no exception. Warning of a trend toward fascism or national socialism, he sombrely declared in his opening address: "To recapture control in Federal spending is the most vital issue confronting this great democracy. . . ." He then introduced RFC Chairman Jesse Jones as "a conservative" who had been "a tower of strength...
Mexico's sleepy old CROM (Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor), whose head, Luis Morones, is a good friend of A. F. of L.'s William Green, revived sufficiently to snipe at Leader Toledano as a "Communist." This has been common Mexican talk ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough...
...resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous as his, he has simply gone too far on the right track. Lynn Fontanne is flawless as the London gutter-snipe who, when her hair was red, slept with him in a hotel room in Omaha, and now that her hair is yellow, tells in fine Romanov inflections of her escape from Soviet Russia...