Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke wayward Winnie Churchill who has long sought to wrest leadership of the Conservative Party from Baldwin...
...several great mistakes. At first he contemplated joining all foreign lines into one. great service. Although he failed to do this, he purchased the famed British White Star Line for his new International Mercantile Marine Co. In Britain, public opinion flared up against this attempt to wrest away supremacy of the seas. But big shippingmen took the deal calmly. "The vendors," wrote a London authority, "made an exceptionally good bargain, which it is probable the purchasers will soon find...
...want to pay the compliment of frankness to this assembly . . . if we agree here upon some form of constitution and you Indian delegates go back to work it, there is a strong organized party [Gandhi's] in that country who will wrest it from you and use its newly granted powers for furthering their own separatist and independent ends...
Banker Caldwell is well liked, and Southerners have great faith that he will lead their region to big prosperity, will wrest Southern financing from New York and Chicago. He is fond of horses, hunting. Southern gentlemen were delighted when he organized Nashville's two hunts, subsidized members who were good riders and sportsmen but too poor for the luxury. His race horses have done well at Louisville and Latonia. He collects early American silver and furniture, also anything pertaining to Andrew Jackson, his hero. With Col. Luke Lee. Tennessee politician, he acquired the Knoxville Journal and Memphis Commercial Appeal (TIME...
...Salem, N. J., William McCausland, paymaster of Salem Glass Works, saved the company's $5,000 payroll when three thugs shot him, attempted to wrest the money-pouch away. He fell, rolled upon it. Workmen found him dead...