Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's Plan yet suggested, Dean Smith's admirers realistically admitted that it would have no chance of getting through Congress unless Franklin Roosevelt accepted it. And last week the stanchest foes of the President's Plan were Privately conceding that, if he chose to whip it through, the necessary votes were already in his pocket...
...highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were still milling around on the cage floor, Clyde Beatty, holding a blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage, slapped the gate shut behind, pranced, crouched, cracked his whip. A lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust of the paw, and the beast took his place. More cats ran in-a batch of lions...
...trim and whip-smart a little Japanese diplomat as the Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet...
...Senate of those same states could, by filibustering, block any judicial appointment he might make, or, for that matter, any law. In other words, he is not so worried about democratic majority rule as he is about his own immediate control. His real complaint is that he can't whip states into lines as easily as the might the gentlemen of the Senate...
...proposal had not been more violent. If it had been, he might have been happier; a good resounding denunciation from the Liberty League would have been a great help to him. But he still had the situation apparently well under control. It was conceded that his leaders could whip his bill through the House. The Senate was divided into approximately equal thirds: one-third opposed to the bill (half of them Republicans), one-third in favor of the bill, one-third still on the fence. The Democrats who had declared themselves divided about 2-to-1 in favor...