Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country lawyer with a fine stand of black hair, may one day be Speaker of the House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score...
Instead of Adolf Hitler it was Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov who alternately cajoled and threatened, and instead of the Völkischer Beobachter it was the Communist Party official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") that was out to whip up public indignation against the tiny "aggressor...
...feared last week, may shortly begin trying to force Sweden, Denmark and Norway into vassalage to Germany by the same threatening tactics which Bolshevik Stalin has employed successfully in recent weeks to vassalize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once she got a whip hand over the Finns, would be strategically placed to threaten Scandinavia, unless Germany exerted a counterthrust, and in Stockholm last week the talk was gloomy. Current were such wry cracks as, "We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians...
...this point, repeal of the arms embargo, and Senate adoption of the Pittman neutrality bill, seemed imminent certainties. Even the much-ignored and resentful House would probably whip through a bill in a few weeks, the wisemen believed. Congress might well adjourn before Thanksgiving...
Secretary Woodring therefore ordered 67,500 troops into Southern States this winter for a long period of intensive training-largest peacetime concentration in history of the regular army. Officers will be able to whip newly streamlined, mobile divisions* into coordinated units educated to the new theories of combat...