Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...
...Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes against Mr. Chamberlain as an Independent Conservative. In the last year she has bustled down to Leftist territory, gleaned enough material to write a book,* with a few items left over to toss last week at the harried Prime Minister...
Immutable privilege of dictators, within their borders, is that of changing past and current history to suit themselves. Last week in Rome, Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
...halt Depression II was the main subject before the Senate last week. Mississippi's Bilbo explained for four hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...
...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...