Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simplest retort to the letter on Union "Corruption" by Mr. Philip Donham '30 is that he is wrong on his facts. If he cares to resign from the Union, he may: Had Mr. Donham submitted a written resignation to the Union with the alacrity with which he wrote the CRIMSON, he would have found his resignation accepted...
...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
...ended the attack of the country editor (Emporia, Kan.) upon the city-bred Nominee. Judges on both sides of the party line awarded the decision to the Nominee, who made no retort to Editor White's exhumation and exegesis of the 1904-1915 record of Smith votes in the New York Assembly (TIME...
Jews. Almost as a retort to recent racial increments of the Smith following (see p. 8), announcement was made last week that Herbert N. Straus, secretary & treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), would be Republican treasurer for New York State. At the Kansas City convention, Mr. Straus offered to bet large sums at 2 to i that Hoover would carry, not merely New York State, but New York City itself against Smith. His first public stroke in his new office was to write letters to 3,600 golf clubs and ask them to close...
...Last winter, when the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. (60% Dutch, 40% British) declared war on the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., both contestants stated their cases promptly and publicly. For Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding shouted "stolen oil" across the ocean to N. Y. The retort was immediate: "The Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. . . . will carry out all contracts into which it has entered, and will not be swerved ... by desperate and destructive measures...