Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding the shopworn whip of next year's election over President Roosevelt's head, the National Association of Manufacturers shows a startling candour in advocating that the reform measures of the New Deal be put on the shelf once and for all. If the people of the country show a reluctance to take this royal road back to normalcy, the indictment of mulishness should not be made too loudly against them...
...would be a national calamity, a calamity to the Democratic Party if he is renominated. ... As long as the Administration keeps up the present program of trying to establish a fake prosperity from scarcity I will continue to fight until we whip them...
...With my riding whip, I sometimes give it to prisoners I have had taken into protective custody to save them from the mob. Take that schoolteacher Dr. Steinruck who used to talk so big! I went with several Party members into his cell. He began to talk with a weeping voice and acted like a schoolboy. He did not act like the man I had expected after so much big talk, so I gave him a good thrashing with my whip...
...same thing has repeated itself in our time. Simple men with no college education rule the Fatherland today. Not long ago a certain professor whom you all know expressed publicly the opinion that the leading men in Germany should be college men. That professor got a taste of my whip. I personally chastised...
Playwright Odets' Awake and Sing!, the tale of a family of disadvantaged Bronxites, did not employ all of the Group's acting company. And his short play, Waiting for Lefty, was not long enough to be presented alone. So the Group got him to whip together a brief companion piece, issued them both together. Till the Day I Die, the companion piece, passes the 60 minutes before Waiting for Lefty starts, and that is about...