Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First death came in a San Francisco street brawl to picketing Seaman Einer Koppen...
...boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays on to marry the dance-hall girl. It takes a full generation for Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when...
These premature reports created a genuine European scare because last week inside the British Foreign Office diplomats of 27 nations indulged in an unprecedented 7-½-hour brawl, conducted with a fury which made the worst believable...
...permanent establish ment of a liberal party, if necessary, in the United States in 1940." Should such a third party, the lifelong dream of many a U. S. liberal, materialize, it would be a tall feather in the miner's cap of John Lewis. Last fortnight the long brawl between the A. F. of L. and his C. I. O. came to a head with the Federation's Executive Council demanding that C. I. O. disband within 30 days or be suspended (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Miner Lewis did exactly what every one expected, flatly and finally...
This polite exchange between two Cabinet members ended an impolite brawl between two potent departments of the Government. For the past three years the activities of John Edgar ("Speed") Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation have put all other U. S. governmental investigating agencies in the shade. Virtually ignored by the U. S. public has been the Treasury's tried & true Secret Service, which tracks down counterfeiters, guards the person of the President. The Secret Service's jealousy knew no bounds when it was lately rumored that all U. S. spy divisions, including those...