Word: whiphand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The Administration tonight appeared to have the whiphand over Congress on whether the embattled wage-hour bill will be enacted. Its sweeping victory in yesterday's Florida primary in which the measure was a clear cut issue, threw an entirely new light on the battle and proponents forecast that recalcitrant, especially in the House, would now flock to the wage-hour standard...
...once united front against the Act no longer exists. Many realists in the field have taken a full measure of the Act and have concluded that they can and will live and prosper under it.... Yet I see these men under the whiphand of New York finance, paralyzed into inaction. I see realists chafing under the domination of these bankers who are forestalling them from moving forward to obtain equity money which the companies sorely need.... These are grave disappointments...
...play interests Broadway more than who wrote it, or who acts in it. Abbott is noted for discovering merit in scripts rejected by other producers, is able by skilful play-doctoring, casting and directing to whip up a hit out of what looked like nothing.* Nevertheless, Abbott's whiphand some-times falters: his first two shows this season (Angel Island, Brown Sugar) were flops. But last week his third attempt looked as if it might last...
...keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point of annexing Siberia forthwith, and was only stopped by President Wilson, who had the whiphand in the naval bargaining going on among the Allies in Washington. The actions of the last year or so have made it embarassingly obvious that the attempt to slice away this territory may soon be repeated...