Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Radical Socialist Gaston Bergery, accused of begging money to arm the Left against the Right: "I said: 'Unless the Government disarms the Fascist, Royalist and Nationalist organizations it will render inevitable the arming of the Left and extreme Left forces'. . . .Tomorrow it won't be an uprising, but a coup d'état. The forces which are being armed will descend together into the streets and the working class also will descend the same day. What can be predicted is not the issue of the struggle but the destruction of part of Paris...
...realize to what extremes of dislike you have reached. The Chamber of Deputies is for the country something that resembles what the Bastille used to be. Your privileges and your immunities represent for the country a fortress that it would like to see demolished. . . . The Royalists should arm for defense, because at present there is no talk of anything but an approaching revolution and the sacking of Paris. I have been told that starting Friday, one will not be able to go out at night without being attacked. I do not know if that is true, but among the French...
When the Motion Picture Research Council was formed in 1927. its first aim was not only to set up and prove such neat generalities as the foregoing, but also to arm itself with a body of expert psychological opinion on the influence of the cinema upon minors. The Council's executive director, the Rev. William Harrison Short, got $200,000 from the Payne Fund and started hiring expert researchers. Last year the Council published its findings in a series called Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter...
...physicist in charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard. He signaled his orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...