Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Taft summoned District Attorney Stimson across the Hudson. Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...
...Negro-elected Cape Province M. P.s. In the Senate the Smuts party reigns supreme, holding 25 seats out of 40. Thus the House and Senate negate each other on almost every important bill, and showdowns must be constantly had under the Constitutional provision that both chambers shall sit, fight, and vote jointly when unable to come to an agreement as separate bodies. The bill which Prime Minister Hertzog was trying to jam through last week, contained an especially neat little joker which would have given the never-yet-enfranchised Negroes outside of Cape Province the right to elect three Senators...
...drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled punches in a fight; a fellow knocked into water coming up in dry clothes) Director Asquith gets across the savagery of city railroads...
George Bernard Shaw once wrote a play (Major Barbara) about the Salvation Army. The heroine loses a fight, leaves the Army. Lately, in real life, a Salvation Army heroine, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army's U. S. division won one fight and lost another. She succeeded in getting her aged, sick brother. Bramwell Booth, deposed as General of the Army. She did not succeed in getting herself elected to succeed...
...teams met earlier in the season in a regularly scheduled game in which Exeter staged an uphill fight to nose out the Freshmen 48 to 40. Since then however the first-year team has improved greatly and it is expected that it will take revenge for the early season defeat...