Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried out and completed this naturally unpopular mission not only with the objective impartially of an expert, but with noble, puritan unselfishness and as a friend who understood Hungary's uphill reconstruction fight...
...Milton Sills). It looks as though the wounds of war would never heal for the movies-now that The Big Parade has made so much money. There is a shell hole scene in this one, too. Somehow no one has recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention...
Public Buildings. The first public buildings bill passed since the War, was enacted to relieve the Government's housing shortage. It provided $165,000,000 to be spent over several years. To prevent the inevitable free-for-all fight that would have ensued among "pork" starved Congressmen, the unique expedient was adopted of allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to decide how the money should be spent (subject, however, to Congressional veto). Incidents. In the first rank of incidentals, aside from legislation were: 1) The ousting (TIME, April 19) of Mr. Brookhart from the Senate in favor of Daniel...
Expectations. The Democrats had already begun to make the Pennsylvania primary an issue. It seems quite likely that there will be a bitter fight in the next Congress to prevent the seating of Vare if he is elected, and there is no small likelihood that an effort will be made to put on record Senators who come up for election as to whether they will vote to unseat Vare...
Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...