Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stubborn of opinion, was trying to jockey Governor Roosevelt into line with his own foreign program just as he had jockeyed Congress to support his 1931 debt moratorium. Dark Democratic hints were broadcast to the effect that Wall Street, repudiated in the election, was trying to get an advance grip, through President Hoover, on the next administration's foreign policy. Why, asked Democrats, among themselves, did not President Hoover offer to turn power as well as responsibility over to the President-elect if he was so anxious for cooperation...
Truslow Adams (March of Democracy) held his grip on the popular mind. But the year produced no Main Street, no Bridge of San Luis...
Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...
...tucked under the Hudson palisades some 20 mi. from Manhattan. In the course of a wedding celebrated there last year by her landlady's son. Miss Cornell and "Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into the river when the dock collapsed. She has a grip of iron, plays a fair game of tennis, a much better game of golf. Ernest Jones, professional at the Women's National Golf Club, who trained Glenna Collett, worries about her because she will not give up the stage, says that in six months he could have her in tournament...
...feature game of the day, Arnold Jones, former tennis captain at Yale, defeated Robert Grant '34 mainly through his well-executed shots. Grant was a bit wild, and seemed to be unable to get a grip on his game. In a long, hard-fought squash match, S. E. Davenport, III '34 wore down his opponent, Phinney, and finally pulled ahead to take the fifth game. Captain J. G. Cornish ocC, lost to the generally superior playing of Harrington, former Harvard player, and member of the Boston squash team that played against the English team in the internationals. The last...