Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montana's Burton Wheeler, anything that looks like a grab for Presidential power is profoundly disturbing. Wheeler scheme for drawing the teeth of the Reorganization Plan was an amendment whereby Presidential changes, under Title 1, needed Congressional approval to be effective-thereby throwing the balance of power to Congress since a simple majority would be sufficient to thwart any executive proposal. Scurrying to round up votes against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley...
...next day, while Dick Whitney was consulting his lawyer - Charles Henry Tuttle, 1930 G. O. P. candidate for Governor of New York-the Attorney General's office did make a grab for his body. Commodore William A. Stewart of the Yacht Club wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second...
...apparently over confident league leading Dartmouth Indians Monday, the basketball title race was once more thrown open. Both Harvard and Pennsylvania are mathematically conceded a chance of ticing the Big Green for the lead, while the Crimson by winning all its remaining encounters can pass the Indians and grab off the title...
Yessir, folks, we have two perfect tickets for tomorrow's game just waiting for someone smart enough to grab the opportunity. In regard to the location of the tickets, they're one on each side of Harlow, smack on the 50-yard line...
...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...