Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie, 49, popular party "whip" and loyal Garner friend, was the conservative South's man to perpetuate the outgoing Speaker's regime...
Hangman's Whip (by Norman Reilly Raine & Frank Butler; William A. Brady Jr., producer). "The fear o' hell," wrote Bobby Burns, "is a hangman's whip." For 30 years, with whip and gun, Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does...
...half bad for melodrama is the last act of Hangman's Whip. Not half good enough are the lumbering first two acts. Author Raine, writer of the Saturday Evening Post's "Tugboat Annie" stories, used some of his previous Satevepost material in his present concoction...
...holder of a D. S. C., Lord Marley is one of Britain's official war heroes. As chief Labor Party whip in the House of Lords, he is a thorn* in the side of onetime Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald who may soon travel to the U. S. again to dicker debts with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week the debt policy of Scot MacDonald, who has never pretended to have a head for figures, was announced for him by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, arch-Conservative Neville Chamberlain...
...previous anti-Singer riots, marchers have carried anti-foreign banners: "Down With Foreign Capital!"; "The United States Is Rich But Little Japan Can Whip It!"; "Give Foreign Factories To Japanese Workers!" Last week no such banners were reported. After the Yokohama smashing, white Singer employes continued to live, as they have for several months, in the closely guarded Grand Hotel. Eightyper cent of "household type" Singer sewing machines sold in Japan are made by Scotsmen in Singer's Scotch plant. Ninety-nine per cent of Singer stock is said to be owned...