Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another power in Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said, could "block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her." While there was no question of "any oppression of the German population in Danzig" and the present status of the City was "not basically unjust or illogical," he believed that in a "clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed...
...dock workers held up a shipment of arms to Poland, then fighting for its life against Bolshevik Russia. It was then that Poland saw the light and began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows that an occupation of Danzig would give Germany a stranglehold on Gdynia. To keep Danzig alive (the city always depended on the Polish hinterland for its business) Poland continues to allot almost half her sea cargo to the Free City. Last year Gdynia handled 8,173,400 cargo tons, incoming and outgoing, almost twice as much as New Orleans handled...
...smug old rivals. A working newspaperman himself, he made the Record a newsman's sheet, gave it a metropolitan flair that no other paper had. He picked Roosevelt long before Chicago, shrewdly identified himself with New Deal liberalism, did more than any other man to break the Republican stranglehold on Pennsylvania and to sell civic decency to Philadelphia. He has run the Record'?, circulation from 90,000 to 218,000. His men work in a converted loft building on North Broad Street, but they get the best salaries in town. The Record was the first Philadelphia paper...
...Kentucky, where Negroes used to be traded by Republican bosses but stayed out of the Democratic primary, Senator ''Dear Alben" Barkley and Governor "Happy" Chandler bid for the Negro vote this year. Dear Alben more successfully. Happy called old Negroes "Uncle" but Dear Alben had a stranglehold on the WPA rolls...
...approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese they will have a stranglehold on North Central China, gravely menacing Hankow...