Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, oldtime Democratic State leader, now a bitter anti-Smithite. renewed his fight with a three-hour speech at Raleigh...
...only solution is to have a party to fight the moneyed power. We need a conscious social control before another world war causes complete destruction; we want men who care about sharing the light of mankind...
...campaign fund by the Democratic Party. Up to Sept. 30 the Republican fund reported was $1,460,834. The Democratic fund as of October 15 was $2,753,192, of which $2,555,353 had been expended. Both parties expected to spend at least $4,000,000 before the fight was done...
Also noted was: "Richard Croker Jr., $3,000." Mr. Croker is the son and namesake of the late famed Boss Croker of Tammany Hall. His name on the list brought mingled memories: of Tammany iniquities; of the family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker...
...James Joseph Tunney took a year lease on a house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...