Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, when a vote was finally taken, Mr. Wheeler's canny amendment was beaten by an even smaller vote than its predecessor-43-to-39. By this time, however, to offset its dwindling majority, the Administration bloc had found a new trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward...
...scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
...affair was deliberately provoked by union officials. . . . They simply wanted to trump up a charge of Ford brutality. ... I know definitely no Ford service man or plant police were involved in any way in the fight. . . . The union men were beaten by regular Ford employes who were on their way to work. The union men called them 'scabs and cursed and taunted them. A Negro who works in the foundry was goaded and cursed so viciously by one organizer that he turned and struck him. That was the first blow struck...
...Catholic clergy were up in arms. Pastoral letters flew like autumn leaves protesting that the school campaign was a breach of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat (TIME, July 17, 1933). Hitler, however, had a trump card. He had long been lining up "evidence" to prove that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich...
What Stanley Baldwin wanted from his colleagues was some assurance that they would help meet the expense of arming the Empire. His trump card, the British Navy, has been worth least in Canada, more in South Africa where he hopes to trade on it for a Dominion-supported air force, most of all in New Zealand and Australia. In 26 years, Australia has spent $350,000,000 on naval defense, largely on her nine warships and the defenses of her home ports, facts on which Colleague Lyons cannily harped last week. With the British Navy in the Atlantic...