Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year it has had a better record than Harvard in the extra-league games it beating the Canadian teams by small scores while the Crimson came cut in all its contests on the short end of a small score. The Eli aggregation is generally picked to snatch the intercollegiate title away from the third place Indians but is certain that they will have to show great power to skate away from the Crimson with another scalp hanging at their belts...
...June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines a Federal felony. This act pitted the U. S. Government directly against the virulent "snatch" racket for the first time. Free from the corruption of local politics, superbly trained and equipped with tip-top morale, the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation buckled to its new and difficult work with a will. Up to last week it had acted in 31 kidnapping cases, returned alive all but one kidnappee. Of the 74 "snatchers" whom Federal agents had helped to catch and convict, two had been...
Owner of Mason's tower is Powel Crosley Jr.'s 500,000-watt Radio Station WLW, strongest broadcaster on earth. WLW pointed out that the people of Mason, if they wanted to install the proper apparatus, could probably snatch enough power out of the air to cook their meals, wash & iron their clothes, clean their rugs, run their radios...
...Nazis converged on Nuremberg, more than doubling the old city's population, some chanted a snatch of Ger man doggerel to the effect that "Since Father joined the Party and Mother joined the Franenschajt [Nazi women's league] and Sister joined the Mädelbund [Nazi Maidens] and Brother joined the Storm Troops, we are met once a year at the Party Congress...
...World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their need of metal...