Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bilbo is hedging his bets. He can't lose. If he can lead Conner off into the middle of the stream and drown him politically, then he won't be back on his neck when he comes up for reelection...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring himself seriously to the notice of Nanking. 2) He then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken...
...Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called "squeeze...
...piety-in-politics was concerned, last week left Governor Landon well in the lead over President Roosevelt. Never adept at bringing the name of God resoundingly into his speeches, Episcopalian Roosevelt has all but given up mentioning his Creator. In his acceptance speech last week Methodist Landon showed himself in the evangelical tradition of Republicans Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, all expert at invoking God from the rostrum. Began Nominee Landon: "In accepting this leadership I pray for Divine guidance to make me worthy. . . ." Concluded he: "God grant us, one and all, the strength and the wisdom to do our part...
...names which led the lists in 1929, with few exceptions, still lead the lists in 1936. Some of the names have been changed but the working bankers of the New Deal are largely the working bankers of the New Era. At the end of June the No. 1 U. S. house of issue was Morgan Stanley & Co., securities offspring of J. P. Morgan & Co. Occupying its traditional No. 2 position was Kuhn, Loeb...