Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leather-lunged Yardlings range the length of Soldiers Field Road fall afternoons with Jaako Mikkola, sturdy Crimson track coach, cracking the whip. Others, not seeking numerals, engage in informal track practice under Bill Neufeld...
...Last week the level to which the supposedly ruling party had fallen was sensationally exposed by Leader Barkley's own colleague, ponderous Logan of Kentucky, who slipped over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan argued in open Senate against his colleague and Leader, when the latter came to next day. He would not yield his victory, and garrumped at the New Deal agencies whose oxen were most seriously...
...saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted...
Only treatment Mayo Clinic specialists could prescribe for Lou Gehrig was rest and special exercises. Although doctors said his grueling baseball career had nothing to do with his disease, he will never swing a bat again, nor even whip a fly rod. Said the Iron Horse last week, as he smilingly faced his enforced pasture: "I guess I have to accept the bitter with the sweet. If this is the finish, I'll take...
...British Navy is big enough to whip any two European navies, strong enough to command the English Channel, the North Sea and the whole Eastern Mediterranean, thus leaving the French Navy free to police the Western Mediterranean...