Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives neutrals a choice between stimulation and stagnation. They can sit at home and count their losses while trade stagnates and costs of living mount. Or they can ride the crest of an economic wave, feeding and arming belligerents-making a gift offering of their wealth as a subsidy to war. They also suffer who do not fight...
...police claws" to mount on the front bumper of a patrol car, grab a speeder's rear bumper...
Died. William Turner, 96, who was rejected by Union Army doctors in 1861 on the grounds that he had but a short time to live; in Mount Vernon, Ill. In 1896 Turner made a vow never to shave until William Jennings Bryan became President, went bearded to his grave...
Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...
Last week the dapper Dictator docked at Miami, sped to Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party...