Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick to attempt to cash in on the brisker bond market last week was Howard Colwell Hopson, dominating figure in Associated Gas & Electric Co., who surprised his bankers last spring when he offered a "baby bond" issue just as the U. S. was selling "baby bonds" to combat hoarding (TIME, March 7). Not selling many baby bonds, not exchanging all of its new 364-day Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week...
...open, its friends put Mr. Smith first into the New Hampshire primary where Governor Roosevelt beat him. But later they carried Massachusetts for him, "chocked" the Roosevelt bandwagon. Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey fell into line. Candidate Smith began to feel all the old exhilaration of political combat. Completely forgotten now were his 1928 words. As a personal matter he wanted the nomination; as a party matter he was determined Governor Roosevelt should not get it by default...
Smith on Conventions. Al Smith has been going to Democratic conventions since 1908. As a New York delegate-at-large this year, he has behind him a veteran's skill to combat a neophyte's candidacy. Writing last fortnight in the Saturday Evening Post he delivered these matured views on conventions...
...minds of many there will be a strong suspicion that it was more than robbery. More probably it was premeditated dishonesty. Had Sharkey "won," there would now be little excuse for a third combat. As it is, the stage is set for another bout, to bring in gate receipts for the fighters, and lucre for any judges whom either manager may care to bribe. In athletics, too, New York seems to have "the best judges money can buy;" at best, they are unduly patriotic. If there were more Yankee triotic. If there were more Yankee shrewdness in the nation...
...annual meeting in Washington last month the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced a new campaign to combat Jim Crowism. Planned by Lawyer Nathan R. Margold of New York, a program was adopted to bring simultaneously "more than 100 cases in as many communities to test the right of States or of individuals to infringe on the social as well as the civic rights of Negroes...