Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival group are the Westmores, four brothers of a wig maker once associated with Max Factor, who have exclusive rights to the make-up departments of RKO, Paramount and Warner Bros, and have opened a Hollywood salon. But in the three-cornered battle Factor still wields the most potent weapon, star endorsements...
...Rise and Decline of the Contract Clause" is the first lecture. Here an attempt will be made to show that a clause placed in the Constitution almost as an afterthought was by a strange process of interpretation, turned into a powerful weapon for judicial destruction of varieties of legislation to which it was never intended to be made applicable...
Asked if further devaluation of the dollar was likely, Mr. Morgenthau shook his head, declared: "It is a weapon for use if needed. We are not looking for trouble, but, if anybody starts anything, it is there...
Strike Tactics. Labor's biggest weapon is the general strike. In all U. S. history there have been but three. The first occurred in Seattle in 1919, the second in San Francisco in 1934. The last one took place within the past year, at Terre Haute, Ind., the late great Eugene Debs's home town.* In the latter the national Federation had taken no active part. The resolution went to the limbo of a resolutions committee pigeonhole...
Against a Dominion citizen no weapon is so keen in the Mother Country as a well-bred accusation of "bad taste" murmured by some Briton. Paradoxically the Royal Family were themselves gently hoist by this petard last week. It was not in good taste, loyal London felt, for the engagement of H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester to be made public last week a few hours after the tragic death of H. M. the Queen of the Belgians became known...