Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creature peculiar to relatively civilized societies; among savages he would be recognized instantly for the public enemy that he is, and disposed of out of hand." He speaks of Bolshevism and Fascism as "the new non-Euclidean theologies." Of the Catholic Church and its flock he writes jovially: "The whip it cracks over them is barbed with the fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities of an extended argument weigh heavily on Paragrapher Mencken's pen; much...
...same? Then & there they decided ''that boss control would remain as long as the young men and women sat quietly at home and allowed the bosses to rule." Out they went to build up ''a fighting organization of younger men and women to whip the bosses in Kansas City." Thousands of members were enrolled and a State charter obtained...
...involved holding company at which many of the Governor's bills are directly aimed. Republican Warren T. Thayer had been chairman of the State Senate's potent Public Service Committee when he wrote the letters about six years ago. Today he is a minority member and Republican whip on the Senate floor. Excerpt from one of his letters...
...nearest parallel to such an investigation as Representative Dickstein is about to launch against a friendly power occurred in 1911. Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
...determined mainly by sectional issues. Said Funnyman Will Rogers: "Every Senator voted against it if it didn't run by his house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained from putting the screws on its Senate followers, thus wasting Presidential strength and risking Presidential prestige. Real significance of the St. Lawrence defeat was that...