Word: stranglehold
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Whatever the present outcome, he agrees with Hitler that Britain's stranglehold on world trade must be broken; the English Tories brought to book. He is not so sure that they will be, as he is that history will bring Franklin Roosevelt to book. Such were the thoughts last week of this big man who walks up & down his spacious office, gnawing his great cigar, storing up the Biblically powerful invective of which he is a master, and biding his time...
...stalemate victory that leaves Hitler in control of Europe is appeasement and thereby treason to world democracy," he touched on the dilemma which American faces today. The simple, brutal fact is this: there is not a ghost of a chance that England, alone, can break Germany's stranglehold on the continent of Europe. The best we can hope for is a "stalemate victory...
...Spaulding Cushman of St. Paul, Minn., president of the Anti-Saloon League, announce that a war chest of $1,500,000 would be raised to "attack the liquor interests with renewed energy." The Board of Temperance noted with alarm the increasing consumption of wine: "Wherever wine has gotten a stranglehold, there is little hope for early release. ... It will surely destroy the French people...
...LIVES. . . . PRIVATE SHOWING OF "THE FIGHT FOR LIFE" BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE DAYTON OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY AND SO OTHER DAYTON PHYSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES PROVOKED ONLY ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE. DAYTON OBSTETRICIANS HAVE ASKED FOR PRINT OF PICTURE FOR TEACHING OF INTERNS, RESIDENT PHYSICIANS AND NURSES. DESPITE HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE VIA BLOCK BOOKING STRANGLEHOLD AND DESPITE ANTAGONISM OF A FEW DOCTORS THE LORENTZ-DE KRUIF PICTURE WILL INEVITABLY ACCOMPLISH THE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT WAS MADE. IT WILL SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND IT WILL PROVIDE THE INTELLIGENT ADULT WITH ONE HOUR AND EIGHT MINUTES OF A THRILLING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE WHICH...
Another power in Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said, could "block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her." While there was no question of "any oppression of the German population in Danzig" and the present status of the City was "not basically unjust or illogical," he believed that in a "clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed...