Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast forebodings in case President Coolidge should be a successful candidate for another term. Said Editor Cook: "There would be ... feeling against Mr. Coolidge within the ranks of his own party. . . .Up to a certain point . . . one can achieve success without . . . arousing to a fury . . . the iconoclasts who resent the fabrication of ... heroes. Beyond that point . . . the resistance increases as the square of the distance covered...
...Scout and a pacifist. I resent the inference in TIME (July 18, p. 8) that the Boy Scout organization is connected with the army and navy. If you should read chapter one of the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, you would find that "the Boy Scout movement neither promotes nor discourages military training, its chief concern being the development of character and personal efficiency of teenage boys...
...flood control. The people of Louisiana do expect that the next session of Congress will concern itself with the problem of preventing future floods, but they are most interested in having something done to alleviate the results of the flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that the flood of 1927, while a terribly regrettable incident, is really over and that there is not much use crying over spilled water. In Louisiana, the flood is still a very live issue; nor is there any tendency to refer...
...Physicians are jealous for their individualistic careers. They resent the development of medical corporations. But as sure as rain they are fostering that development by such a short-sighted procedure as an agreement to exact double fees for night visits...
...great regret I have learned that Jews generally, and particularly those of this country, not only resent these publications [the Dearborn Independent and the pamphlets entitled "The International Jew,"] as promoting anti-Semitism, but regard me as their enemy. Trusted friends . . . have assured me that the character of the charges and insinuations made against the Jews . . . justifies the righteous indignation entertained by Jews everywhere toward me because of the mental anguish occasioned by the unprovoked reflections made upon them...