Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bold? Nervous? This broadside began a week of sensational warfare between the White House and the Senate. Some observers saw President Hoover turning over a new and bolder political leaf, adopting Rooseveltian tactics to combat congressional vagaries. Others pictured him as a nervous, sensitive man who had been swamped by his own anger at the loss of support. Certain it was that his fingers played a new tattoo of worry on the arms of his chair, that his nerves were stretched by the failure of the country to rally sooner from its slump, by Republican reverses in the election...
...turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still unaccounted for, with which to combat the Brown Derby. Because of the power-&-politics nexus, all five Commissioners were ordered to appear this week before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to undergo a grilling. One prime question to be asked each appointee: Did he favor retaining Frank E. Bonner as executive secretary of the Commission? Secretary...
...pictures appear in Fox theatres anywhere in the country. His accusation: that the Fox West Coast chain of 400 theatres was trying to establish a monopoly. His reason: Fox West Coast Theatres were refusing to pay what United Artists thought their pictures were worth.* His proposed plan of combat: building United Artists Theatres in 18 cities and meanwhile exhibiting the company's product in armories and tents if necessary. Possible result: temporary boycotting of Fox theatres, if other companies share Mr. Schenck's conviction that a monopoly has been established...
Appointed. Nathan Straus Jr.; to be vice chairman of the Zionist Emergency Fund in Manhattan, to combat the British Palestine policy; thus taking over Zionist responsibilities of his ill father, Nathan Straus...
...regulars. In the line the play of the ends and the tackles defensively will be the deciding factors. The ends have no Cagle to worry about this year but they have an array of backs to watch, and the most deceptive offensive system in the country to combat. In the backfield the manner in which the understudies execute the lateral pass will be one of the deciding factors of the game. But Harvard's chief threat lies in the new plays that have been designed especially for Army and the judgment and resourcefulness Wood shows in calling them