Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessman Prince's outburst had apparently been touched off by the seven-point program for the Roosevelt Administration enunciated last fortnight by Columbia's Economist Rexford Guy Tugwell (TIME, Feb. 6). From him and the rest of the professorial Roosevelt "brain trust" came no retort. But pedagogs throughout the land promptly answered Businessman Prince. Snapped young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago: "If professors had been listened to more in politics and economics . . . conditions wouldn't be what they are. But in times of prosperity no one will listen to a professor because...
Flabbergasted by this thrust, Foreign Minister Uchida could think of no better retort than, "Our Foreign Policy is conducted with the will of the people and the co-operation of the Army...
...Commons-C. Heard fiery David Lloyd George retort in fighting terms to Noble Lords who think he has been indiscreet about keeping Cabinet secrets (see above...
When Deputy Franklin-Bouillon rushed in waving a telegram and shouting, "Belgium has had courage! Admirable little Belgium has declared she cannot pay!", M. Herriot was ready with an apt retort, even though Belgium's act eventually swayed many Deputies of France...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills, No. 1 Hoover stumpster. procured an advance press copy of the Glass speech, engaged radio time immediately following to make a partisan retort. Hearing of this Senator Glass concluded his speech by declaring that Secretary Mills had obtained his copy "by some means which involves a breach of confidence disdained by every honorable newspaper man," and adding...