Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever effect the U. S. move might have on world affairs, and however Joe Stalin replied, general agreement was that it was popular in the U. S. At the National Press Club in Washington, where generally foregather the most cynical, disgusted, acid-eyed newsmen on earth, a routine luncheon turned into an emotional spree: gathering to hear about news broadcasting in Europe, reporters spied Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé in the audience, cheered him to the rafters...
...Michigan law requires, Mr. Frankensteen filed five-day notice of intent to call formal strikes in all Chrysler plants. With this club bulging his pocket, he then accepted Mr. Weckler's invitation to negotiate a new contract (the old one expired Sept...
...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
...addition to these undergraduates, the H.A.A. ticket office also gives preference (in the order named) to single applications from officers of the College, former "H" football players, faculty members, Varsity Club men, alumni (oldest to youngest), and graduate school students...