Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have played Little Eva in a presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, said the whip was merely a stage prop. "What were you trying to do," asked a wry policeman, ''kill Uncle...
Speaker Byrns, Rules Chairman O'Connor, House Leader Bankhead and Whip Boland made every preparation to put the North Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor...
...Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes on his brass coaching horn without which no fashionable affair of this kind is complete. Mrs. Dibble twirled her whip, and the coach tooled gaily toward Fifth Avenue...
...newspaper headlines. Prince von Starhemberg started matters off last month by waiting until Chancellor Schuschnigg was in Italy to crack wide open the scandal of the failure of Jewish-controlled Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co. His plain purpose in smearing this $150.000,000 bankruptcy through the Press was to whip up anti-Semitism in Vienna, cause a Cabinet crisis that would allow his Heimwehr to take over the Government (TIME, April 20). Chancellor Schuschnigg's next move was to attempt to force the dissolution of Prince von Starhemberg's well-equipped private army on the ground that...
...have brought cracking down on their skulls a number of private investigations. The principal discovery of such men as Allen Raymond of the New York Herald Tribune is the fact that a group of communistic agitators, sponging on the government payroll, are using Uncle Sam's capitalistic cash to whip together a "red" machine. Yet however true these charges may be they fail to consider that the "reds" are striking not for a bloody revolution, but rather for a fair deal from their American administrators. The strikes should focus attention on the misrule of the officials as well...