Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps now the reasons for the Corporation's policy in October may be regarded in their true perspective. The fact that such action was the only weapon with which Harvard could voice its disapproval of the present German system becomes increasingly clear. In a colder light the use of this sword is an active defense for principles whose impairment is foreign to the ideals of the American education...
Under this new system, the winner of the Class A competition will be the Intercollegiate Singles Champion in his weapon and the team with the best record in all of the three classes will be the Intercollegiate Team Champion...
...extra place on the new three-man team, prospects in this class are not too gloomy. In the foils, he likewise has two veterans, Robert C. Ackerman '35, and Phillip E. Lilienthal '36, to serve as a nucleus for this year's trio. In that slashing, cutting, brutal weapon of the gallant Six Hundred, the sabre, Coach Peroy will also welcome back two veterans, Richard Morgan, IV '36, and Richard Morton '36, who worked together last winter...
...amply insured by legal contracts. They need no further, and particularly no military protection. There is great danger of Governors in other states following Arizona's example. This country may see the State Militias transformed from a bodyguard of the people to a bodyguard of the Governor, a political weapon...
Into the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act he wrote for Congress last year Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman carved that clause as a stout weapon for just such a battle as he was in last week. For the first time he was telling potent carriers how to route their trains and for the first time the railroads were openly challenging his authority to dictate on ordinary traffic matters. The immediate stake was $1.000,000 per year in passenger revenue between Chicago and points South. The larger issue was the whole principle of one-man control over the railroad...