Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northern labor leaders and old New Dealers, whooping for disciplinary action against the unreconstructed South, and fishing for liberal and Negro votes, seized control of the Democratic Convention at Philadelphia and rammed the President's civil-rights recommendations into the party platform. That did it. Harry Truman was stuck with his civil rights and the South was stuck with its revolt...
...Republican leaders in Congress had "cut the reclamation program for the West by more than 50%." He continued: "Now, what do you suppose the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee [New York's John Taber] thought about your protests? He said, 'The West is squealing like a stuck pig.' That is what the Republican leaders thought about you [in] this part of the world."* In touchy Texas, Candidate Truman had not a word to say about civil rights or Dixiecrats...
...week, the Democrats dug deep, bought national radio coverage. *John Taber shot back: "Mr. Truman knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
...Warrington going to vote Republican to get even? He didn't see how that would help at all. "This fellow we got now, he's got kind of radical and I hold that against him," he said. "In 1946 we had a strike and he stuck a sword in our back and there wasn't any need for it. But this other fellow is a kind of a radical too. I don't know as I'd go out of my way to vote...
...traffic-will-bear policy has backfired. Because he jacked the price of linseed oil skyhigh, U.S. farmers took up flax-growing. Result: the U.S. this year produced its first exportable surplus of linseed oil in history. Argentina has lost its U.S. and British markets, and IAPI is stuck with 325,000 tons of the stuff...