Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, gushed his gratitude. The party certainly needed the money but the Raskob check meant more than money. It signified the return of financial support as important to the party as the popular support (estimated: 1,000,000 votes) signified by Al Smith's return. With his arm slung across the slight Raskob shoulders Chairman Farley confided: "We're running the cheapest winning campaign in history...
With Disarmament a boiling issue, Senator Borah, powerful chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, fortnight ago gave North American Newspaper Alliance his views on Germany's demand for arms equality with the rest of Europe. Excerpts: "Germany's demand for equality is natural, essentially and fundamentally just. The plea for the sanctity of treaties is sound but it should and must include all parties. The Versailles Treaty has not been observed with reference to Disarmament by the governments which dictated its terms. . . . Technically to observe the terms of a treaty while violating it in spirit and moral...
...Europe, and through the imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...
What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...
...found his legs behaving like Leon Errol's. McLarnin hit him on the side of his head with a straight right-hand blow. The Errol legs sagged. McLarnin hit right-left-right-left. Leonard tried to back away, could not move: tried to hold, could not lift his arms. McLarnin looked at the referee, who put an arm about Leonard's shoulder, led him to his corner...