Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab-bag by the Democrats of Maine and the Progressive La Follette Brothers of Wisconsin...
...petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries of cowardice, NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case: U. S. v. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp., Schechter Poultry Market, Joseph Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter...
...Manhattan an astounding cable from Peking made the general manager of Associated Press grab his grey fedora and dash for Washington. He was promptly received by the Secretary of State. Together they bent over a long, incredible dispatch signed Frederick Moore. It purported to reveal that the Chinese Republic had just received a secret ultimatum from the Japanese Empire to the following effect: The President of China must accept Japanese protection of China and in return must sign over certain powers to the Emperor of Japan. These powers included control of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Treasury...
...Paul V. McNutt, the much-hated autocrat of Indiana, although he had a good, safe, well-paid berth in Texas during the War, did not hesitate to shove aside those who had suffered hell in Flanders Field and grab for himself the fat salary and honors which the real soldiers...
...Gildersleeve followed up President Nicholas Murray Butler's diatribe on youthful manners (TIME, Oct. 8) with these remarks to freshmen: "Perhaps the manners of girls may be better than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that manners are important...