Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some weeks Governor Roosevelt's nomination seemed to me at best a very sour one. . . . The events of the past two months have done much to force me to revise some of my earlier opinions. Those elements in the Democratic party with which Governor Roosevelt did business to obtain delegates have no mortgage on him. He has not talked like Huey Long and Mr. Hearst. . . . On the score of his own abilities my own judgment has been greatly modified by the manner in which he conducted the Walker hearings. . . . What impresses me most about [his] western speeches is the quality...
...jealous of the reputation of the new firm, Halsey, Stuart & Co. Now a white-haired banker of 51, he points with pride to his firm's vast clientele and to the fact that even during the boom it distributed no common stocks. While some of its issues "turned sour" it has maintained its reputation among its peers...
President Hoover is prepared to lose a million or so votes by his stand against immediate cashing of the Soldier Bonus (and his sour remarks about the B. E. F.). For weeks his managers have been loudly demanding that the Democratic national ticket also declare itself on the Bonus in the hope of thus eliminating it as a campaign issue. Last week in Manhattan Vice Presidential Nominee Garner announced...
...absorbing topic among the 147,000,000 people of the U. S. S. R. last wee was Harvest. From masses of figures appearing daily in the official Press, no or could be quite sure whether there woul be enough sour black bread when winter comes. The United Press reported the the Government had only 45% of il planned requirements for July. Other reports were less prophetic of starvation...
...Unkindest was the cut of L'Echo De Paris's famed "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud): "Mr. Hoover who is perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy and astute, Sir John Simon steered the British Press away from this cheap and ineffective sneer by summoning to his hotel all the British correspondents in Geneva. "I implore you," he said, "to give no emphasis to the possible bearing of Mr. Hoover's proposals on the coming presidential election...