Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover would have answered such a question by stolidly staring at his vest buttons. President Coolidge would have adroitly turned the conversation to the White House dogs. But President Roosevelt, too smart a politician to let even his best friends dirty up his administration with their greedy tricks, was ready to meet the issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since...
...strengthening the League and making it more efficient." This satisfied France, which can conceive of the League as strong only if its present principles are strengthened. It also satisfied II Duce whose idea of strengthening the League is to cut out most of its democratic-parliamentary apparatus and vest all League authority in a clique of Great Powers. "Signor Mussolini shares completely the view of Sir John Simon," beamed a spokesman for the Dictator...
Several hours later Fulford Patrick Hardy turned up at the police station with his face scratched, all the buttons torn off his vest and a long story. He said that some Frenchmen had struck his mother, kidnapped him, turned him loose. His father, Senator Arthur Charles Hardy of Ontario, heard the news just before his steamer landed at Cherbourg, sped to the rescue with a high-powered French lawyer. Fulford Hardy had been clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried...
...kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession, ignited the bulletin board and a feather-stuffed couch...
...followers would refuse to support it. Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler, defender of democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed some more. The Ballhausplatz was jammed with cars all night. Lights blazed in the Chancellery windows till dawn. At 4 a. m. reporters and politicians learned Heaven's latest advice to Engelbert Dollfuss...