Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry the Insull scheme as unsightly, the du Pont plan as preservation of natural beauty. The du Pont-Insull fight thus tended to become .an inter-party beauty contest...
...millionaire Senator, the U. S. Treasury last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
...continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator du Pont away from Washington most of last session. This session, though resigned, he will be more present than usual in his onetime-colleague's minds, since the Senate is taking an interest in his fight with Samuel Insull over a Kentucky waterfall...
...sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...
...were printed in metropolitan dailies last week. Among them: "I've got myself into the worst mess of all the messes I've been in. I've lost Bainbridge Colby,* who was my mental mate, given pain to Mother Stoner and must go to court to fight for a bracelet which was given to me. . . . It's taking a long time to live down the child-wonder business and how sick I am of hearing that word...