Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan Piske Stone, now of U. S. Supreme Court) thanked William John Burns for his services and wished him "all future success and happiness...
...fight for an extension to Westminster Abbey has now been waged for 72 years, with definite result seemingly as far off as ever...
Replied Beloit, Wis.: "Wisconsin's pro-British Conservation Commission protects English pheasants introduced into this State to make our loyal Germans dissatisfied with their spareribs and sauerkraut. In the name of 100% Americans, can't you do something about it? Under your starry banner we will fight for the complete extermination of English pheasants, English sparrows and English bulldogs. Don't let King George...
WHEN TUTT MEETS TUTT?Arthur Train?Scribners ($2). The two legal Tutts?Ephraim and his junior partner?appear in connection with The Doodle Bug, The Viking's Daughter, The Meanest Man, The Scarecrow. Then, in When Tutt Meets Tutt, the last story in the book, they fight on different sides of a great dispute about the will of the late Commodore Lithgow. To readers previously acquainted with the legal acrobatics of the two Tutts, it is unnecessary to explain how the elder and more talented member of the firm, aided by the unexpected, scores his point. Such readers will hope...
That Rosicrucianism, with its elves, pixies and goblins, should emerge from encyclopedic obscurity to become the foe of the representatives of Oklahoma goes to show how changed are the public evils which the politician of to-day must be prepared to fight. If the state secures the removal of Mrs. Hammonds, it is not certain that the victory will be so sweet. If her power is that of a "superior mental force, as a certain group of citizens say, the situation is rather more humiliating than crucial. And if the power behind the throne is really that of Rosicrucianism...