Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...units of the State's System of Higher Education, is the thorn that makes the president's seat uncomfortable at University of Oregon. Two years ago Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter was brought from Denver as Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education to quiet a raging political dogfight. But the University still feels itself the underdog. It lacks a full-fledged science department and other requisites of a self-respecting university...
...Barcelona, the capital of more or less autonomous Catalonia (through which supplies for Madrid enter Spain in a steady stream), local President Luis Companys umpired a heroic political dogfight in which the Cabinet of this one of the Spains fell. At last Barcelona's quarreling hot anarchists & communists and warmed-over socialists & republicans grew so helplessly embroiled that most of them seemed relieved when President Companys agreed last week to add the Premiership of Catalonia temporarily to his other offices and worries. Dispatches reaching Valencia said that what had chiefly been accomplished at Barcelona was to "oust the anarchists...
...Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck has done little to win Delaware's three electoral votes, Hoffman is probably more of a hindrance than a help to the Republicans in New Jersey and Fitzgerald is engaged in a touch-&-go dogfight for Michigan...
...visit to Canada. A Canadian war pilot, Captain Roy Brown, now head of Canada's General Airways, was officially credited with shooting down Ace von Richthofen. Last week Baroness von Richthofen asserted that her son had been downed by Australian artillery fire as he flew low in a dogfight with Captain Brown...
Such caution served only to increase Oregonians' respect for Chancellor Hunter's qualifications. Fervently they hoped that so impartial a referee might quell their dogfight, set the pack once more upon the trail of learning...