Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause. The published cause of the strike was the expiration of the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement* on April 1. The actual cause is the Union of United Mine Workers' fight to avoid practical extinction...
They might have been party leaders, might have held the highest office in the land; both preferred to wage a lone fight...
...will be a very interesting fight. Smith is going to be the Democratic candidate, I feel quite sure. He seems to have everything his own way just now." Senator William Edgar Borah is one of the few men in public life who says what he believes, regardless of whether it is what he would like to believe or would like others to believe. Thus, and thus only, it was not surprising that the nomination of Governor Smith, Wet, was predicted by Senator Borah, whose faith in Prohibition is so great that last year he went...
...Italy, is preparing war on Jugoslavia. Famed Croatian Jugoslav leader Stefan Raditch even went so far last week as to exclaim: "We are not afraid of the Italian Colossus with feet of clay, nor of its puppet-pawn, Albania. . . . We are against war, but if the Italians want to fight we will fling them into the Adriatic...
...Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...