Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
...force in French politics had found a new way of expressing its will; the middle class had a new grip on its pocketbook...
...Upton Sinclair, his radical grip long since relaxed . . ." [TIME...
Harry Bridges' left-handed grip on Hawaii's sugar, pineapple and dock workers (TIME, Dec. 22) had never seemed tighter. He seemed coolly confident and was flexing his muscles for another wage fight with the planters and shippers next February. A vice president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, one J. R. Robertson, had gone out from San Francisco to stir up the shock troops and build up a $200,000 "war chest" (one day's pay a month from each of the I.L.W.U.'s 35,000 members...
Last week, it looked as if wily old (65) Colonel Behn might have to relax his tight grip. At the best, he would probably have to share control of l.T. & T. with a rambunctious new group of his stockholders. At the worst, he might lose control completely of his $397 million domain...