Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Norris wished to be a member of the Committee on Judiciary, and for some reason this ambition flamed mountain-high in him and became his consuming passion. Uncle Joe, in spite of my efforts to persuade him, steadfastly refused to name Norris, [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner...
Sometimes, as was indicated in the arrest of the bakery owner last fortnight, businessmen who want to keep competition down and prices up in spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance...
...time he gave a graphic description of a type of money that is not only hot, but very apt to burn the fingers of American creditors. Tramp money will not stay put; it is a form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from the present rising market nor the consequent financial danger to the United States, but he does remember with no little vividness...
...spite of the dull showing of these radio ''names,'' purchasers of Commentator felt that they were getting a sharply flavored magazine which aspired to fill the place of the American Mercury in its palmy days. Lead-off article, from no loudspeaker but from the pen of Historian James Truslow Adams, was a thoughtful audit of the "state of the Union." George E. Sokolsky, writing on John L. Lewis, made the flat assertion that the United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile...
...days of the occupation lengthened, food supplies dwindled, in spite of foreign relief. "A stranger would have fancied himself among a population of ascetics. Everywhere there were symptoms of an appalling state of malnutrition: sties, boils and pimples, cases of jaundice and of scab, scales between the fingers, scurvy of the gums, dry abscesses on necks and behind ears." At first there were ways of getting enough food: if you were a woman, and young, or if you were rich enough to buy from smugglers. Author van der Meersch implies that the Belgians were comparatively well off, had plenty...