Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Mayor Thompson has long nursed a great hatred for the Chicago Tribune and its publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother of Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest...
...front of the reserved seats at the circus ground, Governor Balzar's elephant suddenly turned upon the camel. The camel balked. Lieut. Governor Griswold lost his grip, pitched head-over-heels to the ground. The crowd cheered wildly. Declared Lieut. Governor Griswold as he brushed himself off: "I knew I should never have anything to do with a camel." (Nevada...
...least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile stock-traders. Though few Wall streeters have ever read Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandcs, it was easy for them to imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living until poverty, per-haps starvation, is the rule of life?such talk made spice for bear...
Colorado. The political grip of Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps was broken when Republican voters defeated William Van Derveer Hodges, his candidate to succeed himself, and gave nomination to George Hamlin Shaw, Denver attorney. Onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Hodges had the support of the Anti-Saloon League. Nominee Shaw...
...delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had one antagonist in mind: big-bodied, hard-eyed John Henry Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor no hard-boiled political veteran of the same kidney but rather a gentle academic man who had never before stood for public office. He was ruddy-cheeked, white-haired Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 68, long-time professor of English...