Word: throw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attributed Roosevelt's efforts to unite the warring factions to the fact that the Chief Executive realizes that dualism in union leadership will tend both to weaken and split the Labor vote. The instructor did not doubt that William Green will throw his support as well as that of other A. F. of L. leaders with the Republican party in the coming Presidential election unless the wound in Labor ranks is healed...
...592nd day of their war with Japan. At Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
...organize and direct all efforts to oppose the Japanese. It is in the colleges that Chinese nationalism is chiefly fostered, and hence it is at the universities that the Japanese have directed their first attacks. Through the preservation of the universities alone does China stand a real chance to throw off the Japanese yoke and salvage her own culture and independence...
...denying that it believes in, teaches, advises or advocates overthrowing the U. S. Government. As everyone knows, this statement reflects the policy adopted at the Third International's congress of 1935 at Moscow (which No. 1 U. S. Communist Earl Browder attended) exhorting Reds the world over to throw in their lot with liberals for the present, work with them in Popular Fronts until such time-as real Red revolutions become practicable...
...make sure, recent biographers have stripped him down to his gaunt ribs. With The Hidden Lincoln, published last year on Lincoln's birthday, Emanuel Hertz identified himself as one of Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes on that great torso...