Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Parker's greatest single achievement was breaking by armed force the murderous grip of the Ku Klux Klan on Louisiana...
...last, and nearly all the time of their concerns as isolated. They have no fine understanding of their own companies, too little grasp of their industries as a whole, almost none of the relation between their particular interests and our general social and economic structure, and far too little grip on the social consequences of their activities. We create great banks. Their leaders too often know little beyond finance. When thousands of banks fail, mainly through the intrusion of new social and economic forces, they and the community think in terms of improving the management of banks rather than...
...City Hall by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, has been working with might & main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
Soon after getting his first real grip on the company in November, Motormaker Cord reduced operating expenses $600,000 a year, chiefly by consolidating American Airways' overhauling points and by cutting executives' salaries to a $15,000 maximum. He began liquidating Avco-owned securities, thus realizing $5,000,000 which he husbanded in cash and Government bonds. Consolidating the offices in Chicago is also to save money...
...sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case. There is nothing new or startling or illuminating; but through all the superficiality there is a sure touch, here flippancy, here sober sentimentality. Mr. Hill...