Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes Gil, called at the U. S. Embassy?something which no Mexican President has done for many, many years?and expressed to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow the Government...
...measure neared a vote, last week, General Smuts flayed General Hertzog for dragging the great and vital "race question" into party politics. Every South African election is bound to be just another dogfight between Generals Hertzog and Smuts; but there is indeed something awful and "above party" about the fact that throughout the Union of South Africa white skins are in a minority of one to four. That is the "race question," and it may well trouble every British paleface from the King-Emperor down...
...bill while General Smuts watched, tense and grim. The official tally gave the measure a majority of five votes -but a two-thirds majority was required to make it law. A mirthless, triumphant smile twisted the lips of General Smuts. He had won this preliminary skirmish, but the real dogfight will be the General Election, now scheduled for next June...
...humid, but happy Houston. Discord waned. Celebrities furnished the atmosphere of a glorified picnic instead of a political dogfight...
...past week has seen every nation directly interested in the reparations fight stiffening its back: Europe is preparing for a grand diplomatic dogfight...