Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program will start at 9.30 o'clock, when movies will be shown of the Henney-Tunney fight. At 10 o'clock O'Hara will start announcing and commenting on the returns at 20 minute intervals." He will be introduced by Edward Morley '29, president of the Debating Union...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers...
...said: "I will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...American people do not fight sham battles when these questions are at issue...
Long and expensive ($300,000) was the contest in the courts. Alone, Inventor Carson could not have financed it. But to his aid came many a friendly Westerner. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco sugar and gas tycoon, organized the Carson Investment Co. to fight the Desert Rat's battle. And in February, 1925, Tycoon Spreckels went down to the waterfront boardinghouse to tell the Desert Rat he was worth $5,000,000, perhaps $20,000,000. He became a national celebrity over night. Hundreds of newspapers carried his story; hundreds of women found matrimony desirable...