Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equally bushy, licks his thumb and smooths them down to polite dimensions. Speaker Byrns lets his grow wild and in so doing they belie him. For 40 years, ever since as a country boy he talked his way into the State legislature at Nashville, he has put a friendly arm around the shoulders of his constituents and told them they "ought to be comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville's fire-eating Representative John Wesley Gaines but ever since he has dodged political combat...
...Arms for the Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
...action of France in clinging to this last sepulchre of international action is most significant today when in Europe disillusion stalks armed with bayonets, and faith in anything except one's strong right arm marks a nation as a whimsical idealist. France's fortitude, if carried to its ultimate conclusion, will be a far greater factor in maintaining peace than appears on the surface. The old system of turning the entire country over to the military staff at the first sign of storm clouds was an enormous factor in preventing the localization of the conflict in 1914. When two mobilized...
...never wears an overcoat and who has long since discarded the eyeglasses he wore as a young man, rushed down to Washington and taking Housing Administrator Moffett by the arm, began to talk like an express train. "Look at the millions of dollars banks and insurance companies have," said he to Mr. Moffett, "but are afraid to invest. Put a government guarantee on my mortgage and they will not be afraid. The Housing Administration has never guaranteed a $5,500,000 mortgage or anything like it, you say? Well, what of it? The law does not forbid it. Give...
...couple enter the hotel arm in arm, the doorman bows deferentially, and Loew's State can breathe again...