Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur Mullen, Democratic national committeeman, also helped to stalemate the Senatorial choice. Democrat Mullen wanted to consolidate his grip on Federal patronage by getting his friend Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, one-time (1911-23) Senator, back into his old job. But Governor Bryan was in no mood to foreclose his own chance of going to the Senate...
...handed fight against American Imperialism. They felt the prophetic verity of his warning of the train of troubles that "would follow our acquisition of the Philippines. They responded to the memory of the courage of the lone individual who faced the flaming patriotism of Congress and country in the grip of Spanish War victory frenzy, who faced it to the end and with the last ounce of the vestiges of his earthly energies...
...fifth of Author Norris' monosyllabic titles. There is little apparent connection between the title and the story, whose key is given in the motto- quotation from Isaiah: "And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day." All seven in Zest get a good grip on the hero, though (Biblically speaking) he is on knowledgeable terms with only four...
...Valley Plan, his mortgage and farm relief bills, his railroad legislation (see p. 12). For the baffled businessman who wondered whither he was being led, it was a look into the future. To many that future had looked like an era of State Socialism, with the Government's grip fixed hard & fast upon industry, agriculture, transportation. To others it seemed as if Congress were abdicating its Constitutional powers to the White House. The country appeared in the thick of a gigantic social and economic revolution, quiet but nonetheless real, the direction and philosophy of which the average citizen...
...feet. The other half called for a much-greater-than-Hoover program of credit expansion-the spending of billions of dollars in public works, mortgage refinancing, Tennessee Valley developments, etc., etc. If the President could once get that other half into operation, he believed that he could break the grip of deflation. Last week he was forging ahead with the expansive "inflationary" side of his big plan when he was suddenly stopped in his tracks by another Senate vote on outright currency inflation...