Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York voted heavily against amending its constitution to give its Governor a four-year term with elections in presidential years. Governor Smith led the Democratic fight against this amendment.*. . . Republicans gained four Assembly seats. . . . Democrats pushed through a $300,000,000 state bond issue for building Manhattan subways. . . . Republican mayors replaced Democratic in Buffalo, Schenectady, Little Falls, Rome. . . . Democratic mayors replaced Republicans in Auburn and Troy. . . . Tammany Democrats swamped New York City...
...appeal to put "fight talks" and psychologizing on the shelf he is basically sound but one has the feeling that Mr. Roper had his tongue in his cheek in writing this chapter...
...American nitrogen fixation industry, now so rapidly developing in ... (this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active in Washington. They accept Dr. Herty's major doctrine regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude. But they demur at his denunciation of foreign loans. They would fight back by Europe's methods. They cannot now. They are blocked by the Sherman Anti-Trust law which forbids amalgamations likely to stifle competition. So (argued they last week) repeal the Sherman Anti-Trust law, or at least amend it to permit unification of U. S. industry to strike...
...make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted as referee and umpire; other students watched. The boxing match began. Ralph's opponent whacked him in the ribs and Ralph cried quits before...
Together with Emilio Aguinaldo, Senor Quezon is the dominant spirit in the fight for Philippine self-government, and he is in this country at the present time for the purpose of interviewing President Coolidge on that question...