Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial...
Universally disregarded, the nine-mile limit has been a potent weapon for the police to hold over fractious drivers and parties to street accidents. Last week Prague taxi drivers and chauffeurs staged an effective protest...
Wave-Riding Romar. Waves, 12 to 16 feet high, curvetted over each other as the huge German Rohrbach seaplane Romar roared over them in fractious test flight last week. The Rotnar alighted, ploughed through the flapping crests, took to the sprayed air again. The test of her seaworthiness was satisfactory, pleasing...
Because of the border states, the name of Cordell Hull of Tennessee came up for the vice-presidency. He was National Democratic Chairman in 1921-1924 and, remarkable yet true, acquired no enemies during that fractious period. As a state legislator, as a circuit judge, as a nine-term U.S. Representative (1907-21, 1923-27), he has deserved well of Tennessee and the vote there is his to a tabbycat. He is, moreover, pronouncedly dry. He would tend to make Kentucky safe, too, for the Democracy. Tennessee and Kentucky have 12 and 13 electoral votes respectively...
There are two rollicking sailors in this fractious and excellent comedy. One is Spike Madden, an amorous captain; the other is Salami, a tough, common, swab, whose philanderings around the world are vastly annoying to the first. In every port to which Spike Madden ventures, searching love and its accompanying delights, he finds that Salami has already appropriated the most lovely ladies. Enraged, he longs to meet his rival and give him a beating. He does not, however, discover the identity of Salami until this wayward character, traveling incognito, has worsted him in a street fight for which both...