Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Philip Murray and George Harrison are two of the ablest labor negotiators in the land, their assignment was nearly superhuman. They strained for cordiality, addressed each other as "George" and "Phil." They posed reluctantly for newsreel cameramen shaking hands-without sound effects. Mustering a sour smile, Phil Murray observed: "This will look pretty fishy." And George Harrison answered: "Yes, when they see this the rank & file will decide here's where we sold them down the river...
...partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant on May 19 which went sour. Bulk of Rightist relief came from the Brooklyn Tablet...
...volume on Andrew Jackson, Author James offers a frankly-hinted explanation: ''Many good writers," he avers, "who now and again dash showily into the biographical lists are careless, lazy and shallow about their research, whereas most of the honest and competent researchists can't write for sour apples...
...months, radicals led by sour-faced General Francisco Mujica, Minister of Communications & Public Works, and Toledano have been hurling charges of "Fascist" against 240-lb. Cedillo. Backed in his home state of San Luis Potosi by 7,000 men, the last private army in Mexico and apparently in high favor with President Cárdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused...
Good Intentions. When the 75th Congress met last January the Democratic Party had a bigger majority than any party in the history of the U. S.-75 of 96 Senators, 333 of 435 Representatives. Moreover the great majority of the Majority had goodwill towards Franklin Roosevelt. The only sour note was every politician's knowledge that overwhelming majorities, like oversized amoebas, tend to split. On Feb. 5, Franklin Roosevelt dramatically disclosed his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court and the Majority began to disintegrate. The good intentions of Congress towards the President's legislative program were...