Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
Last week the Government of President Lázaro Cárdenas remained financially above water largely by reason of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...
...reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed...
...next three weeks, at least, Harvard's baseball team is going to hang on tightly to first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League standing. By turning back Dartmouth, one of the leaders, last Saturday while Yale, another close rival, was being upset by Pennsylvania, the Cantabs comented their grip on the lead, scoring their seventh victory in nine games, and they cannot be displaced before June 18, when their next league game is scheduled...
Cambridge was in the grip of a new Red scare yesterday as an investigation led by Mayor Lyons pointed to a Dunster Street cellar as the center of a Communist organization, propagandizing school children with the end of enrolling them in the Young Communists League. Police believed that Harvard undergraduates were among the leaders of the movement...