Word: wherewith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Vories McNutt last week reared up on his fine hind legs, revealed that his status as 1940'$ leading If man is causing him considerable pain. Addressing Indiana University footballers, Paul McNutt touched on stories that he is 1) a stalking horse for Mr. Roosevelt; 2) a club wherewith the President can cow Jim Farley, who would rather have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt: "You don't know...
Captain Mahan gave Big Navy men the world over a sales talk wherewith to woo legislators and tax payers. He delved into the histories of nations from Rome to the U. S., came up with his theory that no nation ever became a world power or held its position without a Big Navy. This was a godsend to his contemporaries, who had to deal with the awful fact that so long as the U. S. was content to grow within its mainland boundaries, it did not need and would not have a Big Navy...
...want at this point to express sincere thanks to the Austrian Chancellor for his deep understanding and warmhearted readiness wherewith he accepted my invitation and endeavored with me to find a way that is quite as much in the interests of the two countries as it is in the interests of the entire German people whose sons we all are no matter where our cradles stood. I believe we thereby made a contribution to European peace." (See p. 19.) "Self-Determination." Touchiest subject that Adolf Hitler raised was his pronouncement on the favorite Nazi doctrine...
...always happens after a big defeat, the fall of Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
...anchor-weighing contraption ($500) wherewith, by stepping on a pedal, a yachtsman starts a motor to raise his anchor...