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Word: shrillest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...benefit to the thousands of investors in the bonds & securities of the railroad and in the general public interest." Then he swung into a discussion of the "masses"-or what Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls "the forgotten man" in his political orations.* Rasped General Dawes at his sharpest and shrillest: "It's the mass attitude that controls and. this mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems, is watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Damns, Peanuts & Masses | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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