Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager of the Rochester, N. Y. office of L. F. Rothschild & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers, last week banned women from his boardroom. "Women are usually star readers or chart followers," he explained. "They try to influence others with their theories. Some used to grab our mail before it was opened...
...finally food, which might well be distributed by the Commissary Departments of the army and navy." This primary program, Mr. Walker pointed out, should be augmented by a course of instruction for those interested in prospecting or placer mining. Such instruction is now being offered in Canada under the Grab State Bill but recently passed there, and has been given in a very desultory manner by certain Western states. If introduced here, he said, it should be handled under the coordinated direction of State and Federal Mining Bureaus and mining engineers...
...objects of the Grab State Plan, according to Mr. Walker, are manifold, and it is designed to attack the problems of the depression from more than one angle. "In the first place," he said, "the plan is intended to relieve unemployment through putting men to work in the gold fields. It should open up our vast gold resources through the grub staking of prospectors, and lead to the location of new dredging operations and the discovery of new lode mines. In the second place, it will put gold... purchasing power and a medium of exchange... directly into the hands...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
...week with wicker baskets over their heads, as is the Japanese rule in case of capital crimes. What the police feared was another wave of assassinations staged by patriotic youths who think that Japan has not yet seized enough Chinese soil. Since the present Government is honestly trying to grab all it safely can, Tokyo police, who are sometimes patriotically lenient toward would-be assassins, made real and strenuous efforts...