Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Mr. Metcalfe had to say was almost as lurid as his appearance. The Bund, said he, was a fighting subversive force that had penetrated into U. S. navy yards and aircraft factories, was prepared to "muster a force" of 5,000 soldiers. Some of Witness Metcalfe's quotations...
Like every other honest young man, the Vag has oftentimes admitted to himself, and, occasionally to others, that he would make a wonderful tailback. Provided, of course, that he could ever muster time enough to get into good condition again and buck up nerve enough to report for practice. It is no secret to the Vag that he probably could tuck that pigskin under his wing and run like hell for a touchdown against most any opposition. And he's a pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick...
...that point Boston had 28 points and Harvard had 31, with the relay, worth seven points to the winner, still to be swum. But Powers, Moore Stowell, and Bosworth, the strongest team Coach Pete Petersen could muster, took the event...
...badly beaten at the polls was King Carol's subservient Premier George Tatarescu that, even though-Rumanian law allows any Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French...
...confusion to the pandemonium about the Panay in the U. S. State Department last week, serious consideration of the Ludlow Resolution, which would tie the Government's hands in just such a crisis, was that thing. Secretary Hull promptly announced, with as much politeness as he could muster, that he was unable to perceive either "the wisdom or the practicality" of the measure. Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor denounced it as "monstrous." The President-in response to whose wishes the House Military Affairs Committee reported favorably on a bill forbidding unauthorized sketches or photographs...