Word: cudgels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio is a blue-chip big business. But it has one great obstacle to its future: so long as all station licenses come up for review before the Federal Communications Commission every year, no radio station can guarantee its existence for any longer period. Since FCC took up its cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick is just a lath. Unfortunately, at the moment the big stick was very much in the minds...
...President did not need to cudgel his memory to recall the sort of leadership of which Senator Robinson is capable. For twelve years, since he succeeded Alabama's late Oscar W. Underwood, "Joe" Robinson has been the boss of the Senate Democracy. Since 1933 he has been in command of a Democratic majority. Of experience he has all that a man requires. His best work in the last six months...
Often and ably does Japanese Minister of Railways Shinya Uchida cudgel the brains in his bald head for a new publicity dodge to draw the attention of tourists to Japan. Last week foreign editors were printing new pictures of the Japanese Minister of Railways. Reason: Mr. Uchida had had himself snapped putting a jujitsu headlock on blonde Mrs. Sarah Mayer, wife of a British Army officer in Japan...
Questions of right and wrong will be debated forever and standards will change endlessly. No moral standard, however, will ever be made right by the use of might. Let the guardians of our morals persuade us of their rightness and put aside the cudgel of intolerance that is resented by intelligent...
...scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog...