Word: duel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth such legislative inquiry to be authorized since 1890, and the passage of the resolution marked the end of a political duel between William Kingsland Macy, G. O. P. State Chairman, and William L. Ward, longtime boss of Westchester County's Republicanism. For months Mr. Ward & henchmen had balked the inquiry, presumably because of a neighborly feeling for New York City's Democracy. Mr. Ward's capitulation, apparently under pressure from Washington, makes Mr. Macy undisputed G. O. P. chieftain in New York State...
...jailed for "interrogation." Mr. Bethune, of Atlanta, Ga., was held incommunicado, denied counsel. It required two heated notes from U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson to get him out of jail. Subsequently Mariano Puga Vega, a lawyer for General Motors, challenged the chief attorney for Brusadelli & Manni to a duel...
Close competition featured all of the bouts in the sabre division of the University championship tournament. In winning first place Wing defeated R.B. Lawson '32, Ludlam, and E.A. Ackerman '34. Lawson placed second, and Ludlam took third place. Almost every duel in this weapon was fought strenuously, and several of them took some time to complete...
...University foils men won eight out of nine of their duels. The superiority of the Harvard fencers in this division was so marked that it was almost a surprise that they dropped the one duel...
...Legal Duel Great was the array of legal talent which the Bank of U. S. affair brought last week into the New York courts. For Messrs. Marcus and Singer appeared Charles Henry Tuttle, last year's Republican candidate for Governor of New York. C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of the bank's directorate, was represented by famed Martin Wiley Littleton. Mr. Kresel himself appeared in court with his counsel, John William Davis, erstwhile Democratic candidate for President. They were but a few of the bank officials' lawyers. On the other side appeared District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain...