Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...
Next day, the temper increased. Communist Deputy Fausto Gullo, a peevish pout on his face, charged his enemies with the old tactics of Lysistrata.* Cried he: "These last elections have been shameful. The government used unthinkable methods to win its majority. Do you want an example? Priests openly counseled wives to go on a 'bedroom strike' if the Communists won the elections...
...message on Commencement Day of 1948 it is that such a development must not happen. The ideal national course--aid to the actual democratic socialistic parties as well as the present governments of Western Europe--is perhaps too much realistically to hope for faced with our prevailing political temper. A minimum of desirability in United States policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate should then...
...succeeded. La Guardia, the imaginative, tireless, dictatorial little crusader, was also a spiteful petulant exhibitionist with a passion for speeding through the city in police cars and making faces at cameramen. At 57, Bill O'Dwyer is a calm, controlled and sentimental man; when his temper rises he talks bluntly and profanely, but softly and with a cop's cold and quiet...
Arcaro's biggest failing used to be his temper. When he got mad during a race, he crashed flagrantly into other horses. He won a reputation as the roughest rider in the business...