Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...popular subjects for dinner table conversation and letters to the editor during the past year has been, "What's the matter with the younger generation?" The answer probably is, "Nothing...
...cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted to ask . . . how Ickes first got into the chips. . . . He said I had been a sports writer. . . . The answer is that he was a sports writer himself . . . but such a punk that he never made the grade. . . . Ickes has been extremely sensitive . . . but when he is doing the punching he draws the foul line down around the kneecaps. . . . Impecunious Johnny One-Suit . . . proud to collaborate with the hoodlum government of Chicago...
Hatchet Man No. 3 was New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who made suggestively scalp-knife noises by explaining that the Republican National Committee could not afford to answer Secretary Ickes on the radio because it was "refusing to chisel funds from New Deal business victims with a campaign handbook racket. . . ." Getting worked up to his war dance, Senator Bridges ululated: "Who is this Ickes who talks so big-at a safe distance-about Hitler? In his own right Ickes is a Hitler in short pants. . . . A professional rabble rouser. . . . A political hatchet man. . . . Like Hitler...
When Harold Ickes aired his answer to Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech last week, Detroit's station WXYZ was so crowded with commercials that it decided to put on a transcription of his remarks an hour later. Baffling was the result to many a Detroit listener. After praising the New Deal for its war on chiselers in politics and out, the Ickes speech rolled around at last to Philadelphia Publisher Moses L. Annenberg, recently jailed for evading income taxes. Cried the recording...
...feet, Churchill snapped: "If my honorable friend had paid half the attention to the full . . . statement which I've just made that he was accustomed to give in obstructing my efforts to get this country properly defended before the war, I wouldn't have to answer this question...