Word: crutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly by the deep water, he thrust out his legs alternately as though he were riding a bicycle. Tired of "bicycling," he "abducted" and "addicted" his legs (raised & lowered them sideways), creating great swirls of water. A swim and a walk in four feet of water unsupported by brace, crutch or attendant, are included in his daily 45 minutes of underwater calisthenics, or hydrogymnastics "Vastly improved," commented Physiotherapist Helen Lauer. With braces and cane and leaning upon someone's arm, Governor Roosevelt now can take short promenades...
...credit will be largely used as a bank crutch. It will, its friends hope, relieve the strong banks of the job of carrying the weak ones, thus freeing their liquid assets for more constructive purposes. The one great danger cited is that R. F. C. may so load itself up with all the frozen securities now clogging the banks that it will itself go into a frigid state and sink out of helpfulness...
...Dallas general convention of the church he wept himself into official forgiveness for his stockmarket gambling (TIME, June 2). Two weeks later he told a U. S. Senate committee that his political lobby and market activities were none of the Senate's business and with the single crutch he was then using because of his arthritis, pried his way through a crowd which was watching for his senatorial flaying (TIME, June 16). His action defeated the Senate committee. It has not recalled him for quizzing...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Bishop Cannon rose in the middle of a heated debate, used his crutch as bumper against the crowding audience, stalked from the room. A shouted controversy accompanied his flight...