Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morse was sentenced to serve 15 years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta for false entries in the books of the National Bank of America. Mrs. Morse sold her furs, her jewels, her Fifth Ave. home to fight for his release. President Taft pardoned Morse on the grounds that surgeons reported him dying...
Paul Berlenbach showed that he was not afraid to fight. He fought boxers and took what they had to give and tired them out; he boxed fighters and hit harder than they did. In December he beat young Jack Delaney, a French-Canadian who could both dance and hit. Critics began to think better of Paul Berlenbach...
...remained. For ten hours 60 had held 2,000 while the convoy they were escorting had gone on to safety. In Indo-China a force of 390 had beaten off an entire Chinese army 7 times during a 32-day battle. General de Negrier once remarked: "Some soldiers can fight-the legionnaires...
...iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed. Turnesa was frozen now. If someone yelled, if a lightning bolt fell, if a caddy dropped a bag, Jones might. . . . But already...
...Bill for farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...