Word: squirmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast a campaign speech in which he flayed Democrats and their tariff tactics as responsible for the Depression...
Finally this potent, prophetic Briton indulged in a bit of pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...