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...order for the right honorable gentleman to call those of us who have done a little bit for our country Nazis? If so, the right honorable gentleman may as well understand quite clearly that I regard him as a low-class fascist." That set off a verbal Donnybrook. Cries of "tyrants . . . gag . . . come on, Hitler" crackled across the gilded chamber...
Determined to be officers & gentlemen, Naval Reserve officer trainees at the University of California seemed inclined to pull their punches in regular boxing settos. So their instructors thought up a game that looked something like a Donnybrook Fair but was actually the offspring of two respectable sports: basketball and boxing...
Hague stumped the state. In a Donnybrook of bigotry, lying and slander, the new basic law was killed. Soldier ballots were...
...Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government...
Behind this view lay this theory: the President, and events, have now worked the Democratic Party around to a position where it must nominate him. If the opposition stands firm against him, the next convention will make a Donnybrook Fair look like a love feast, and the Party will be left sprawling and broken. In this situation the President can easily rig the show for himself...