Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turning down the grab for extra pay', came the prompt reply; he was referring to a resolution demanding six months extra pay for discharged soldiers, defeated chiefly because Roosevelt himself echoed the spirit of the hour by declaring, 'We came here to put something in the Government, not to take something away from it'. All-American and all for America; non-sectional, non-political; and, when it came to something for itself, unselfish too. Truly, some convention...