Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following preliminary skirmishes in sundry Cambridge haunts, the respective presidents are scheduled to cast the first ball at 3.30 o'clock. The second team field is the probable battleground, although arrangements have been made to secure the Stadium in case of capacity crowds...
With such epithets loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson and publicity-crazed Municipal Judge John Homer Lyle belabored each other last week in the final round of their fight for the Republican nomination to be Mayor of Chicago. The primary election was to be held Feb. 24, their battleground was the Loop, their prize the honor of being the city's First Citizen during the Century of Progress (1933). Their hooligan antics, their vulgar language blanketed other reasonable is sues, obscured other candidates...
Despite talk that the proposed law might even be carried to Congress, the news services did not take it very seriously. They knew this battleground of old. Prior to 1900 laws were passed in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas to define the press services as "common carriers" obliged to give service where requested. Momentous test case was that of the Chicago Inter-Ocean which, suspended from the A. P. for infraction of a rule, sued in 1898 to compel reinstatement. The Illinois court ruled that the A. P., then an Illinois corporation, had "granted to the public such an interest...
...United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...