Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussian Army machine and a policeman's lot might not be so important in war as in peace. But war or no war, anything that might happen to eclipse or remove Herr Himmler's aging boss can be expected to be the signal for a dogfight for power between Herren Göring, Goebbels and Himmler. Herr Himmler, the youngest of the lot, does not intend to be the least...
Rare was the U. S. railroad that made money in 1938. One such was Chesapeake & Ohio, which last week reported 1938 earnings of $20,192,650 ($34,034,269 in 1937). Ownership of that rich property is well worth fighting for. During the last year a bitter dogfight has raged between the potent Guaranty Trust Co. and a group of tyro financiers headed by Robert R. Young. Chief bone of contention has been Chesapeake Corp., the holding company created by the Van Sweringen brothers to acquire a 51% interest in the C. & 0. Last week, as Wall Street had long...
...Midwest, football fans anticipated a better-than-last-year Notre Dame team and the perennial Big Ten dogfight...
...Arriving in Tacoma full of beans after junketing in Alaska, PW Administrator Harold Ickes last week jumped into the intra-Democratic dogfight with an unexpected assault upon tart old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. "The reactionary press," said Mr. Ickes, "hails this 'rugged individual' as another Horatius-at-the-Bridge because of his bitter attacks on economic policies of the Government. Yet no Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed...
Each spring almost every team in both baseball leagues announces confidently that it will win the pennant; before the championship fight both challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they...