Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later occasion to offer his knowledge of rope-tying to the White County sheriff. He has since performed the same service elsewhere in Illinois, in Kentucky and, I believe, in other States, has never accepted payment, not even expense money. He asks for and usually receives the weapon with which the crime (when murder) was committed. The arsenal in his home is imposing. His most publicized and helpful service: tying the noose on Charlie Birger, Southern Illinois gangster, murderer, executed at Benton, Ill. in the spring of 1928.* . . . A very charming gentleman, Mr. Hanna receives hospitably callers who come morbidly...
...protect these few by forbidding all expressions of "radicalism" is to use the disastrous methods of the prohibitionists. There are few better ways of increasing the number of "Reds" in our colleges than by seeking to suppress them forcibly. If curbed they must be, there is no better weapon than ridicule--as the Michael Mullins Marching and Chowder Club of Harvard has on several occasions successfully demonstrated. But it is absurd to speak of a "Red menace" in the colleges. New York Herald Tribune. Sunday...
France's determinations to keep the League of Nations alive at the cost of considerable insecurity to herself shows Gallic tenacity in its highest degree. Her forthcoming treaty with Russia would no doubt be a far more effective weapon in keeping Germany on the floor if Comrade Litvinov were allowed to have his way. The Russian Foreign Minister, realistic as ever, prefers an alliance providing for instant mobilization of both French and Soviet armies in the event of provocative action on the part of Germany. The French government, however, faithful as ever to its patient at Geneva, has insisted mulishly...
...electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit his invention on his own, buy back and return to his family's farm. Angela's chief weapon is her glib ability to change the subject of an argument. Slow-witted Dick's most effective device is to throttle her when she does so. That he ultimately gets the farm is due more to clumsy main force than to tactical skill in debate...
...wage neutrality"--that is, insist on maintaing to the utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection of the government from those who engage in commerce with warring nations. The Nye-Clark resolutions would be a step towards the adoption of this attitude...