Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of Mr. Roosevelt's sincere concern for the purity of primaries, citizens were puzzled when they recalled how he had urged, in effect, that the terms "Republican" and "Democrat" be superseded by "Conservative" and "Liberal." In which case party membership as now known means nothing...
...William Green's eyes, the main obstacle to his resuming his position as the topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner...
...TIME DID I THINK, MUCH LESS "CHATTERED," ABOUT A SALE OF CRUM ELBOW AS AN ACT WHICH WOULD "ANNOY FRANKLIN A GREAT DEAL." HONEST, HARDWORKING, DEBT-FREE PEOPLE COULD NOT ANNOY OTHER HARD-WORKING DIRT FARMERS AND WOULD DIMINISH RELIEF. THAT THE TRANSFER TO FATHER DIVINE WAS CONCEIVED IN SPITE IS NOT TRUE AND IS TYPICAL OF NEW DEAL DEFENSE PROPAGANDA SENT OUT BY SMUT AGENTS DREW PEARSON, WALTER WINCHELL AND ROBERT ALLEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SMEAR MASTER MICHELSON. WHEN AGAIN THEIR CONCEITS ARE SERVED UP AS AUTHENTIC QUOTATION GET OUT YOUR FLIT GUN. ROWLAND SPENCER...
...display were 50,000 musical instruments worth $2,000,000- stock in trade of 500 exhibitors at the 37th annual convention of the National Association of Music Merchants. In spite of a slump during the first half of the year, the merchants predicted that the total volume of business in 1938 would equal that of the banner year 1937, when $200,000,000 was spent in the U. S. for instruments, instruction and upkeep. Most popular instrument as last year: the accordion. Outstanding trend in the trade, although unit sales have been small, is in the field in which...
Stanford and Hopkins built huge houses on San Francisco's Nob Hill; Crocker spent $1,250,000 to rival them with a gaudy, towering architectural monstrosity. An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...