Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Curtis was conducting the same sort of smalltown, one-ring-circus tour as four years ago. As in 1928 he floored his audiences with oratorical extravagances, staggered them with tariff statistics, lost his temper when heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead...
...feel in a vile temper with the fools. They probably will want an extortionate ransom, but please don't bust yourselves...
...Commander Stevens had misjudged the temper of his organization. Rank & file legionaries suspected they had been "sold out" by their leaders to please the White House. At State conventions one department after another began plumping for cash at once. The cry for cash arose in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, California and a score more. Speak ers against the Bonus were roughly booed to silence. There was money to be had in Washington and legionaries were bent on getting it. It was hard to make them see why railroads and banks could...
...henpecked Mr. Gedge is in an even tougher spot, living in enforced exile from his beloved California, his Shriner tendencies sternly held in check by a wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument of Mrs. Gedge's scheme. "Soup" Slattery, hot on the trail of the Gedge jewels; Jane Opal, who thinks she wants an intellectual beau but really fell for Packy when...
...Deputies and giving the Right Wing a working majority of 36. The morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time to time in keeping the Hitlerites in their place. That being so, the balance of power last week was in the thin, capable hands of ascetic former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. His personal party, the Catholic Centrists...