Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again...
...cuts with other nations; 2) the tax bill, although the President would like the coconut oil tax eliminated; 3) the law to extend the present temporary plan of bank deposit guarantee for another year-thereby putting off the more drastic "permanent" guarantee; 4) the Stock Exchange regulation bill, with teeth; 5) a bill to appropriate $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for relief and PWA expenses until the next Congress meets. Picked for probable sacrifice: Commodity exchange regulation bill; communications commission bill; permanent airmail bill; Wagner Labor bill. Picked for defeat: The silver purchase bill...
Meantime in Washington last week it became clear that the rolling barrage of protest against the bill to control stock and exchanges was beginning to tell. For the first time since the bristling measure was introduced last February, Congressional comment was offered without the tired phrase, "with teeth in it." The people's representatives reported that on some days they received literally sacks of objecting mail, not all from brokers and businessmen but even from schoolteachers and pastors. In the Senate Banking Committee such innocuous sections of the bill as the declaration of public policy (with which even President...
...lounge of Manhattan's Phi Gamma Delta Club last week newshawks found a sleek-haired young man who was once the second most important man in Peru. Straining a whiskey-&-soda through his enormous teeth, Juan Leguia told a colorful story of three years' political imprisonment, and unwittingly revealed to his listeners why there are so many revolutions in Latin America...
...list. I. very peacefully, hit him in the face and took him to the window and threw him out into the street. . . . This man, this disloyal man, I said to those assembled, could not govern if he could not talk, and he could not talk with a mouthful of teeth...