Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic is in danger!" When eight months ago (TIME, June 12) the then Premier Daladier first raised that cry in the Senate it seemed no more than a useful political trick to whip Senators into line. Last week every Frenchman realized that the Republic was in danger, and to pull it out Edouard Daladier was made Premier of France again...
More than one opposition Senator suspected that President Roosevelt had tossed the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty into the Senate at this time to give that august debating society something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore...
...There was-and there is-about as much cooperation between the Federal Trade Commission and industry as there is between a lion-tamer with a blacksnake whip, a revolver and a strong-backed chair standing in a cage with six jungle cats snapping and snarling on six star-spangled hassocks-that is their version of economic planning. . . . Yet that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they...
Britain. Because that canny Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald will rush into no experiments, to the infinite distress of Britain's Hearstian press peers, they used the President's speech as a whip to make the Prime Minister giddap...
...difficulty intelligible. At her best, as in the lithograph "Brot" she achieves striking beauty with remarkable simplicity and economy of line. Most powerful of the exhibits are the series of fascinating self-portraits, versions of "The Widow II," the conventional "Dance Around the Guillotine," and the symbolic "Hunger's Whip." Dr. Kuhn is to be congratulated for bringing such an exhibit to the Germanic Museum...