Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor was not satisfied last week but it accepted with good grace a Presidential decision rather than embarrass its friend Franklin Roosevelt. The automobile code expired and Labor wanted a public hearing to make a fight against the code's "merit" clause, to strive to get a 30-hour week, higher wages. Manufacturers were adamant in insisting they would renew the code only if such questions were not broached. The President extended the code for three months without a hearing, but said he was going to order a Federal inquiry into the problem of stabilizing automobile employment, an inquiry that...
...authorship of the two-line vaudeville gags which serve for dialog. Typical cracks: "A man in the house is worth two on the street." "That guy's no good. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." "What is your favorite sport? Don't embarrass me. boys." (In front of a picture): "It's an old master, you know. . . . . It looks like an old mistress to me. . . ." "Are you here for good? Well, I'm here, but not for good...
...Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world more sympathetic...
...giving out the news that Pope Pius XI was considering a bargain to let Nguyen Huu Hao remain a Catholic if she gave the Church her girl children. The Holy Father is thoroughly aware of the political and religious state of affairs in Annam. It would be foolish to embarrass the French Government with any dogmatic decisions. The Christian girl may have much or little to say about what her children become. And the less the Annamites know about it the better...
...immediate issue is concerned, it should be considerably clarified tomorrow when Mr. Farley has promised to state the government's stand at some length and submit evidence to justify its actions. In the meantime the critics of Mr. Roosevelt continue to moan and howl and attempt to embarrass him. Through their control of the press they are able to make it appear as if the people as a whole are disgusted with him because he did not "play fair" with aviation companies; it is, I think, extremely unlikely that any of the companies involved are innocent for reasons set forth...