Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...framework of the League," although only two League States are to go on trying to make "The Deal" with Italy. In Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval's entourage indignation was expressed that Socialist and anti-Fascist officials in France have been doing their best to wreck "The Deal" and embarrass His Majesty's Government by premature disclosures. For M. Laval, it was said, "From now on he will deny every disclosure! Absolute secrecy at this stage is imperative for success and the cause of Peace...
...Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey last week managed to catapult himself into the headlines by contributing a few notes on how footballers are financially coddled at Ohio State University. The Tree-Surgeon Governor was not concerned with the purification of Amateur Sport. His prime purpose was to embarrass politically the University, of which he is no alumnus...
...Internationalism of the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...hope you will not ask me that question." "I have no intention," shot back Chairman Harrison, "of trying to embarrass you but, if possible, to remove our own embarrassment. ... It is apparent to me that this House Bill has been based on the Treasury's recommendations...
...knows better than Senator Glass that fireworks are not conducive to the drafting of sound and significant legislation. The House, prodded by Chairman Steagall of the Banking & Currency Committee, passed the Eccles measure with a whoop last May. Apparently jealous Congressman Steagall's prime purpose was to embarrass his old rival Senator Glass with a demonstration of the House's enthusiasm for the bill?whether its members understood it or not. The House made a few concessions to country bankers, self-righteously struck out one of the best features?pensions for Federal Reserve Board members to insure their independence?...