Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeves rolled up, young Mr. Insull explained: "Accomplishment comes before formality. We want to keep a friendly and informal spirit right along. There's a spiritual side to helping those who must have help this winter. It's an emergency but we haven't lost our grip...
Only once did he re-enter the political arena. At the Democratic State Convention of 1918 he rose to denounce William Randolph Hearst, who wanted to be Governor. Hearstlings raised a furore, ordered the sergeant-at-arms to throw Mr. Seabury out. But majestic Samuel Seabury eluded a firm grip on the seat of his pants, made his speech, buried Hearst for Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...position of a man with a wild bull by the tail. So far they were safe, but every thought was for that moment when they would have to let go. The Brüning Cabinet still had the bull by the tail last week. They took a firmer grip...
...monopolizing or attempting to monopolize radio communications through the control of radio apparatus." RCA with some 4,000 patents dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip on the industry that five independent radio manufacturers, backed by RPA, went into the Federal court at Wilmington, Del. and asked Judge Hugh Martin Morris to pass on the legality of RCA's tube contract with competitors. Judge Morris ruled that the contract was a violation of the Clayton Anti...
...office of Premier is a hard and wearing position. No man should hold it for more than six months." Col. Walery Slawek, before his demotion last week, had been Premier since November last while Dictator Pilsudski serenely vacationed in Madeira, positive of his grip on power (TIME, March 2). Who are the "Pilsudski Colonels"? Who is Prystor, the new Premier...