Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly President Hoover denied that he had made any such request to the Tariff Commission. Observers began to realize that the Tariff fight was passing into its bitterest stage...
Opposition. To "flexibility" and U. S. Valuation most Democratic Senators are opposed. Also in opposition are Idaho's Senator Borah and the Republican Progressives following his lead in the forthcoming tariff fight. Their objection is that the flexible provision of the law gives the President an unconstitutional power to "levy taxes," that U. S. Valuation is a subterfuge to obtain higher rates than the tariff bill itself would seem to grant...
...Rodney's officers changed their cricket flannels quickly, motored 15 miles to Torbay where the Rodney, world's twin- largest battleship lay at anchor.? Dartmouth cadets, thinking of Drake and his officers who were called from playing bowls to fight the Spanish Armada, buzzed with questions...
...Afghanistan, the Mohammedan mullahs (priests) of Near Asia have spread their reactionary revoltings to neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
...team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling...