Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...
...boldest stroke of British policy since the War is the "Eden Diplomacy" of His Majesty's Government in filling the seas around Italy with warboats and naval aircraft (TIME, Sept. 2 & 30). This cramming of weapons into the Mediterranean had the effect of making the League of Nations loom big with new prestige because at Geneva handsome young Anthony Eden gave the impression that if only a few more chips were knocked off the League's shoulder by Italy then Britain would fight. Last week the Mediterranean was still full of British warboats when the House of Commons...
...yard breast stroke--Won by Robert G. Heskett '37 (H); second H. B. Savage (M); third Bertram S. Wolfson '36 (H). Time...
...their preamble, the veterans' leaders demanded: 1) immediate payment of the full 1945 value of each certificate, less only the amount the holder had borrowed on it; 2) a refund of interest paid on such borrowings or cancellation of interest accrued and unpaid. As their new and crowning stroke, the Bonuseers proposed to pile unearned interest on unearned interest by directing that any veteran who had not chosen to cash in his certificate for its 1945 value by April 6, 1937 should receive 3% interest on that value each year he kept his certificate until...
...starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore...