Word: unamerican
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John P. Davis, Negro: I speak my bitterness today without malice. . . . The threat of displacement against Negroes is most damnable and unAmerican. ... If NRA really wants to crack down they should put an anti-displacement clause in the NIRA...
...changing of this name, Hoover Dam, is to quote Will Rogers, "the silliest thing" any Administration ever did. Also it is the cheapest and most unAmerican...
Also passed out was a Walker statement in which the Mayor intemperately flayed the "unAmerican, unfair proceeding conducted by Governor Roosevelt against me." Excerpts...
...council drafted formal charges. They were vague. Mr. Hopkins had once said that he was a Republican before a certain antagonist had left Hungary. This was called "unAmerican" of Mr. Hopkins. Also it was charged he had been at fault in graft that last year sent two councilmen to the penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...
...summer. Homecoming legislators took their turns for customs inspection, opened every trunk and bag, paid duty on every taxable trinket. Last week Assistant Secretary Lowman feeling that the disturbance had thoroughly blown over, issued a new order, again granting "courtesy-of-the-port" to Congressmen. Newspapers fumed editorially about "unAmerican favoritism," while jubilant Congressmen, returning from abroad for the impending session of the House, jaunted through the customs in their old, carefree...