Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Plan E was described as "a plot on the part of those people connected with the Harvard School of Business Administration to grab the government of this city," by Thomas F. McNamara, President of the Cambridge City Council, at a Council meeting Tuesday night...
...Warsaw and in Budapest last week the overwhelming will of two highly emotional peoples to grab slices of Czechoslovakia was such that Poland and Hungary would certainly have overthrown their Cabinets, had not Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy been 100% in accord with popular opinion. A slice of defeated Hungary containing 1,000,000 Magyars was carved off in 1920 by the Allies to help make up Czechoslovakia...
...those who say that force will rule the earth unless the democracies fight to combat it. History has never shown that through destruction comes enlightenment. There are those who think it morally wrong for England to back down on her promises, who think it wrong for Germany to grab territory and peoples that do not belong to her. Undoubtedly, these, like so many acts of all countries, should not take place. But in a given situation a country like England must do what is most expedient and reasonable to prevent from doing what is more unmoral: take a positive part...
...arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give up its Wartime control of radio, and later whenever commercial services tried to grab amateur wave lengths. A.R.R.L. President Maxim carried the fight to Washington, brought the amateurs back to the air, kept them there...