Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income tax (1934) A self-proclaimed reactionary, he suspects all New Deal legislation, believes the Democratic recovery program is composed of "mere relief measures." Legislative hobbies: As party whip he has found little time to pursue any personal legislative bent except public education. For years he was chairman of the Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored U. S. participation in the World Court...
...Yale meet showed pretty conclusively that Harvard has probably the best all-round dual meet team in the country. It exhibits an almost uncanny balance between track and field events and testifies to Eddie Farrell's ability to whip a poor indoor outfit into shape for the outdoor season...
...necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again. At the half-mile pole, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery pushed out in front and while his backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed there until the furlong pole. After turning for home, Jockey Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed...
...moment that in one form or another it was here to stay. General Johnson, who made no thundering defense before the assembled Chambermen, was not so sanguine. At a dinner of trade association executives he announced plans for a nation-wide drive within a month or two to whip up flagging interest in the new "code eagle." "Due to a lapse of public enthusiasm," said the General, a drive was imperative. "If you can't get public support, you just can't make the thing go." After a short speech, he announced that he was ready...
Amongst other statements made is one to the effect that the nearest parallel to such investigation occurred in 1911. You state that ''outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement." Is this not an erroneous statement and is it not true that the Russian trade treaty was abrogated because of Russia's refusal to recognize the passport rights of American citizens? The situation came to an issue because American citizens of Jewish faith had their passport privileges negated particularly...