Word: stings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungary, which has never admitted Rumania's right to Transylvania, indignation at this sting from Hornet Barthou grew so intense that the Hungarian Government had to assign troops to guard his train as it crossed Hungary. Before leaving Rumania, which he lately induced to recognize Soviet Russia (TIME, June 18), M. Barthou was presented with the first Rumanian passport valid for travel among Bolsheviks, a flattering passport made out to "Louis Barthou, Rumanian citizen" in recognition of honorary citizenship just voted him by the Chamber of Deputies. According to Citizen Barthou of France and Rumania, his two countries...
...political wizard his friends make him out. Yet Republicans in Congress continue meekly to vote for most of the appropriations the President requests for fear that, otherwise, their constituents will oust them from office. Last week, however, Republican Representatives to a man rose and screamed at the sting of a political hornet the like of which few of them had ever known before...
More reassuring to businessmen was the introduction in the Senate of a series of Administration amendments to take the worst sting out of last year's Securities Act. These amendments would abolish the liabilities of officers and directors for false statements made on information received from, accountants and other experts; would limit the liability of underwriters to their share of issues underwritten; would shorten the period in which suits might be brought; would require proof that misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond...
Wednesday Evening, May 9 *Procession of Bacchus, from the Ballet "Sylvia" Delibes *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Londonderry Air
...years the responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee...