Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
...Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey and Burton are famed votegetters in their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath of the Hoover-Willis fight for Ohio's delegates to the Presidential convention. Moreover, Dry Democrat Locher's victory over Wet Democrat Graham P. Hunt of Cincinnati seemed reversed when errors were discovered in the vote-counting. It looked as if Mr. Hunt had really finished 96 votes ahead of Mr. Locher...
...bellowed and blustered militarism through the War; but she was quietly relieved when the draft board doctors said he really wasn't fit to fight...
Militarists look forward to a day when the nations will no longer fight "wars," but will instead send out battalions of "scientists" to share the burdens of civilization by exterminating each other under the guidance of "Ministries of Peace...
...fight against human excesses . . . is difficult. The fight against profiteering purveyors of alcohol is difficult. The fight against these two Powers combined is HOPELESS." -Ivan Bratt...