Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote for whatever measure the Republican leaders declared good...
...last week, to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York wrote Representative John C. Box of Texas, new Democratic whip...
...fill the post of the late William A. Oldfield of Arkansas as their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...
Fighting mad Christians were able to retort to Frankfurt's too-smart critics that the Savior once seized a heavy whip and laid valiantly about him, until he had driven the last moneychanger out of the Temple...
Following a two year respite from football during the World War it took hard drilling to whip a team into shape for the 1919 season. But it was done, and the team, composed mostly of returned soldiers, came out of the Yale game 10 to 3 victor...