Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France, and in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free State of Prussia-which is approximately two-thirds of all Germany...
...Displeased by a decision against him, Eduardo Lopez, curly-haired Mexican fencer, flung his sword into the air. It bounced over the guard rail, injured the hand of a small boy. Dismayed, Fencer Lopez apologized, was disqualified. In the fencing team championships France won the foils and epee, Hungary the sabre...
...produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the Paris newspaper of the Agence Economique et Financiere...