Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
Federal Judge William Hawley Atwell of Dallas, a big blonde blue-eyed Texan, is a stern and conscientious jurist. For two months he has served on the bench of the Federal Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., during the absence of a resident judge. He took with him a righteous whip which he had learned to crack below the Mason-Dixon line. He flayed what he conceived to be the lax, despicable mores of New York law courts...
...qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till...
...front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans for the chief municipal executive. Reflecting that he had long ago written a now famous chanson, "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May," they urged him to whip his talents once more and write the words of a song for Say When. This the Mayor did. These are the words...
...ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit." But Hearst no longer cracks the whip that terrorized his rivals and upset the standards of journalism at the turn of the century. He is now willing to compromise, or to stand...