Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jowled man in the full dress of a Prime Minister turned to the Deputies and told them to sit down. They sat. Benito Mussolini read out in a fine commanding voice the oath of fidelity to the King and Constitution. He ended with: "I swear," and raised his right arm in the Fascist salute. Next he read out the names of the new Deputies in alphabetical order. Each rose at his name, raised his arm and said, "I swear...
...stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last distance marker. Distance: 55 ft. 4 in.-some 23 in. beyond the world record...
...policy, Japan has been induced by the chaotic situation in North China, to adopt an outright coercive technique; the United States has been generally successful in using more subtle measures, such as financial infiltration, but we have on more than a hundred occassions since 1850 resorted to force of arms to protect our economic interests in Latin America. By using strong-arm methods Japan has rushed into political control before economic control has been completed. Other Western powers in China and the United States in Latin America are using the reverse procedure, but the ultimate commercial aims are similar...
Secret Service. Best known undercover arm of the Government is the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation, directed by J. Edgar Hoover, whom one is supposed to telephone in case anyone in the family is kidnapped. The Department of Labor has sleuths who track down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income...
...four days later the Minneapolis Council was in session, and the mob came back, 6,000 strong-strong also in convictions, for the Northwest has a considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load...