Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlikely that the topic of an extra Congressional session was discussed during his meetings with President Coolidge. with Senator Borah and with other Congressional leaders. At any rate it was after a conference with Mr. Hoover that Senator McNary of Oregon, Farm Relief leader, announced that he would not fight for consideration of a Farm Relief bill at the present short session. The much discussed extra session therefore, became virtually assured, will probably be called by Mr. Hoover shortly after his inauguration...
...politically virginal State. He came, indeed, from a State which during this decade seemed rapidly to be acquiring the title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote for whatever measure the Republican leaders declared good...
Most ardent in the fight for honesty was Michigan's McLeod who foresaw that if Congress continued to flaunt the Constitution, it would be necessary to create a new party or "Constitutional Bloc" which would "prevent the waning of the Constitution through improper teaching or lack of teaching," and "purge the supreme law of matter properly only the subject for legislation...
Thus, with a familiar and ironic boast began the last will and testament of Tex Rickard, famed fight promoter, dead of an operation for appendicitis. When it was read last week, it was discovered that Tex Rickard had left his estate, amounting to between one million and three million dollars, to his wife Maxine and to his daughter, Maxine Texas Rickard...
...people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign of 1928. His own victory in a year of overwhelming Democratic defeat cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a remarkable personal tribute...