Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuhrer had a whole week of speech-making to his Nazis before him. and the Proclamation only heightened the world's suspense by saying, with reference to Germany's self-sufficiency, "the idea of a blockade of Germany already may be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon...
According to the 64-year-old Duchess, the Rightists have planted more than 20 large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more...
...that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against tyranny and barbarism ought to> fight the American Communist Party with every honorable weapon in his grasp. . . ." Defendant Browder, appealing to the unwritten code, accused Plaintiff Eastman of carping at the Soviets; "When we call public attention to this, he turns to the courts to try to silence us. We have never asked the courts to silence Eastman's slander against...
Replying to these attacks at a meeting almost twice the size, William Bunyon, President of the H. U. E. R. A., denied that he was in any way connected with the University. Declaring that the ultimate weapon of a union was a strike, he showed that if his organization came into power it could paralyze the University...
...moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them because of the dangers as a political club rather than a social defensive weapon. I feel confident that the U. S. will eventually take the same stand. . . ." Then it was time for an Administration spokesman to present its side of the argument. The job fell to genial Jesse Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than...