Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blast & Brake...
...afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field. He was priming to let fly another blast at Senator Tydings when he received a call from the White House. He emerged from a half-hour talk with President Roosevelt to announce that he did not care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into...
Last week Editor Mussolini opened up full blast to boom his aggressive designs against Ethiopia and blast Great Britain for opposing them at Geneva in the person of that sleek Etonian Peaceman, Captain Anthony Eden (TIME, June...
...people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
...campaign culminates in a grand burst of ballyhoo over Railroad Week, celebrating the air-conditioning of all Western through trains, the first actual service of various streamliners. Festivities will begin June 10 at 8 a. m. when every locomotive from Chicago west, with steam up, will blast its whistle for a full minute. All the round-houses will hold open house...