Word: arms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments...
Last week, in Lake Forest, Ill., an old man was having his breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale...
Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...
...decade, militarists have dominated the struggling Republic. Fidelity to high principle and public spirit seems wholly alien to the war lords, and heavy taxation, robbery, and greed are the sins of all. It is only through the force of the strong arm, through the criminal control of district coffers, suppression of popular opinion, and vicious propaganda, that each militarist supports himself and his clique...