Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alphabet" administrative agencies set up under the New Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan was circumscribed and back to the State machines went a great share of the political power that Franklin Roosevelt had spent six years gathering into Federal hands. Hardest blow of all landed on his nose, which the Senate feared he wanted to stick too far into international power politics...
...Japanese are bitterly aware of this. They have not yet dared seize the international settlement of Shang hai and other foreign areas of cities but they have tried gradual encroachment, and last week they tried something stronger, blockading the French and British concessions in Tientsin, thereby striking a blow where the U. S. has no direct territorial rights...
Great Trek. With the fall last autumn of Hankow and Canton, the two ends of Chiang Kai-shek's railway supply line, the Chinese lost the route by which they were accustomed to receive munitions from British Hong Kong. This terrific blow caused western wiseacres to proclaim that Japan had won the war. But the capture of the Canton-Hankow railway terminals instituted a new period of Chinese resistance. With Chiang's capital removed to Chungking in interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts...
...midge-sized Negro bootblack named Charles McFarland tried to get $3,000 damages from ex-Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey. His story: because he inadvertently tickled Dempsey's ribs while adjusting his coat, Dempsey fetched him a belly blow, damaged his already ulcerated innards. Dempsey's successful defense: "If I had socked this little guy he wouldn't be here to tell his story. And if I have to pay him $3,000 I feel that I should be entitled to one punch...
...students at Harvard of a more complete understanding of the Fine Arts," and that he filled a definite need for "excellent teaching in the theory of visual arts." Moreover, a petition signed by 80 per cent of the Fine Arts concentrators called Feild's non-reappointment "a serious blow to the teaching of Fine Arts," and warned that "with the loss of Mr. Feild the Department (Fine Arts) is in danger of becoming one-sided...