Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love is lost between bumbling Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and bawling Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog of South Africa. Last week Mr. Hertzog did his blatant best (at his exceedingly safe distance from Benito Mussolini) to make Mr. Baldwin seem cowardly in not pressing Sanctions against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas...
...away from all this as soon as he can because he is facing his first serious campaign for re-election since he went to the Senate 17 years ago. Reason: Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Down & Outer Up. During his second term as Governor of Mississippi (1928-32) blatant Theodore Bilbo kept in his office an almost life size picture of a skeleton with "Mike Conner" inscribed across the skull. At the end of that term, Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, a bright young Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo...
...churchgoer was the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, blatant publisher of the Denver Post. To him, Catholicism was occasional newspaper material. To his Catholic Wife Belle and his Catholic Daughter May, however, the solace of the Mass was real. Last week Daughter May (Mrs. Clyde Berryman) gave $150,000 to the diocese of Denver to enlarge and rebuild a Franciscan monastery...
...before he has used his front page to give his fellow-publisher unmerciful Hayings, once on the New Deal, once on the Lindberghs' self-exile. Last week aggressive Publisher Stern spread a blistering two-column editorial on the Post's front page accusing the Mirror of a blatant fabrication...
...February Representative Zioncheck shocked colleagues by asserting in the House that U. S. Supreme Court Justices were mostly "minions of wealth," that four or five of them were "old fossils." Next day he made news again when Texas' blatant Blanton called his arguments "asinine" and he stopped House proceedings to ask Speaker Byrns: "What does 'asinine' mean? I forget...