Word: arms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Hoover: "We give the Federal Farm Board every arm with which to deal with the multitude of problems...
Senator Brookhart: "This Senate Bill gives it no arm to buy and sell the surpluses of farm products . . . cuts out the very pledge made by the President so distinctly...
Last week, through the Press, the long arm of Rumor reached out and tried to pluck Justice Stone from the sanctity of the supreme chamber and place him at the head of the Law Enforcement Commission which President Hoover is slowly selecting. Annoyed or embarrassed, Justice Stone protested: "The matter has not been proposed to me nor have I it under con sideration or in mind...
Well within Frederick Handley Page's arm-reach last week was a $100,000 prize put up by the Guggenheim Fund for a plane which best promised safety in the hands of even an inexpert pilot...
...rawish morning in Manhattan last week when the squeak of early traffic and the fading of a good night's sleep woke Columbia's Professor of Physical Education Jesse Feiring Williams. He stretched out one arm and twitched it a little. He wiggled his fingers. The like did he do to his other arm and hand, to his legs, feet and toes. Dexterously he rocked his hips, arched his back, rolled his head. Then a swift bathing, a brisk toweling, a fastidious dressing, a precise breakfasting, a quick walking across the streets to teach physical education to Columbia...