Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most citizens have supposed that dirigible construction in the U. S. was as dead as the 89 good men who went down with the Shenandoah in 1925, the Akron in 1933, the Macon in 1935. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt corrected this impression. He ordered the construction of a new rigid airship for the U. S. Navy...
...Bone fell down an elevator shaft and almost broke his neck, which remained stiff and now gives him a look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple...
Every morning and every evening Manhattan's municipal radio station WNYC plays The Star-Spangled Banner as its signature. As every patriot knows, every patriot springs to attention at the first notes of the national anthem, remains rigid until the end. Because Elizabeth Faffs husband is a loyal WNYC fan and a patriot to boot, Mrs. Faff had a problem on her hands. She wrote the station that he made her get out of bed both times, complained: "It is rather upsetting....Have you any suggestions?" Stumped, WNYC referred the letter to Mayor La-Guardia. The Mayor was stumped...
...Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza had not cracked, calmly announced the Anglo-French demands were "receiving consideration." Prague papers were encouraged to print them in full, placed under rigid censorship as to editorial comment. As the Czechoslovak cabinet sat hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim...