Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scranton last week met the biennial convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the chief speaker at the second meeting, U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis. The issue between conservative and insurgent United Miners: whether to strike generally or just locally. The conservatives won. Victory was hollow, however, for 15,000 Pittston miners involved then decided not to strike...
...armada was to circle east and north over Connecticut, over Ossining, N. Y. sweep down the Hudson River (so that in case of accident no plane would fall in the city), dogfight over lower Manhattan, then proceed to dedicate the new Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
Herbert Livingston Satterlee, 67, silver-haired, silver-bearded, blue-eyed corporation lawyer and humanitarian. Near him as he stood at the Manhattan hearing last week sat his wife, who is John Pierpont Morgan's sister. She knew that this cancer dogfight was distracting Mr. Satterlee from his battle to get back for depositors the savings they entrusted to the failed Bank of U. S. (TIME, Dec. 22 et seq.). She knew how he had got into the cancer fight: at Lawyer Durbrow's request. Mr. Satterlee had organized the New York Better Health Foundation. Then he had learned...
...Corwin was in our Chicago office a short time back and gave a sample of an imitation dogfight he had perfected for use in a future "Thriller." I swear to you that half the tenants of the world's largest Merchandise Mart came running, fully intending to witness the fight. Fully six or seven dogs of various breeds, ages and sizes were closely distinguishable in his imitation...
...clumsy, easy-going sheep dogs can put up a terrific fight when attacked and every Englishman knows how much like a .sheep dog is the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., P.C., whilom Prime Minister (1924-29), still Leader of the Conservative Party. Last week Mr. Baldwin began a political dogfight with two of the loudest snarlers in all Britain: the "Press Lords ' Viscount Rothermere and Baron Beaverbrook, famed "Hearsts of England" (TIME Feb. 10). Tooth and nail they are fighting to tear leadership of the Conservative Party from Mr. Baldwin. Major significance was lent to this combat last week...