Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...menace of their guns to make the Spanish Reds release the Nazi freighter Palos which they had seized and interned at Bilbao. Amid much bluster on both sides, the Nazis made "unalterable demands," the Reds "unalterable refusals," and the little Palos became a bone over which could snarl the mightiest dogs of war. Meanwhile a fresh White offensive surged completely into Madrid from the west, occupying the north station near the onetime Royal Palace, then was swept completely out again by the Reds...
Last week Judge Willis used the squabble over Judge Edmonds' qualifications as an excuse to cut through the Pacific Mutual snarl. Taking the case back to its legal beginning, the court asked Commissioner Carpenter to submit a reorganization plan to him exactly as he had previously done to Judge Edmonds...
...best time to make the best case. Germany last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist powers. Italy's War booty of the heavily fortified Dodecanese Islands are within a short...
Every Labor convention must have at least one good, healthy snarl at Capitalism. "Do you . . . stand with the President of the United States?" asked Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. Up went a mighty affirmative roar. "Let that," declared New Dealer McGrady, "be the answer to the money bags of Wall Street...
This created a snarl which most Paris commentators considered impossible of disentanglement by Pierre Laval. It appeared that after years of spiteful and ill-tempered intrigue "Edouard II" Daladier had gained at least a temporary whip hand against "Edouard I" Herriot, and that when Premier Laval returns this week from Geneva, where he is wrestling with the octopus-like Ethiopian Question, he will face the most disastrous French political muddle of his long and dexterous career...