Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidently, Nominee Smith regarded the principle of McNary-Haugenism as a good thing, but that the plan of it was bad. Nominee Smith approved the World's interpretation. Mr. Peek, now a Smith man, said nothing. Chairman Raskob announced the formation of a committee to supervise a strenuous fight for Corn Belt votes. It was also announced that the Democrats were in a better position to win one or more of the 13 Midwestern farm states. The Republicans announced that they were not worried...
...office while Goebel contested it. At his trial it was testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...
...quit because he was afraid of going stark, staring mad. This school had faith in the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. These potent papers quoted Tunney as he expanded on an incident which occurred while he was training for his second fight with Jack Dempsey...
...desire to quit the ring-forever, the first opportunity that presented itself. I wanted to defend my title. I wanted to make enough money, but most of all I wanted to leave the game that had threatened my sanity before I met with an accident in a real fight with six-ounce gloves that would permanently hurt my brain...
Many a movie man smiled; it was a moral victory for the motion picture over the stage. The "legits" had been forced to fight the cinema with weapons that the cinemagnates introduced. But no smile twisted the cheeks of the more astute picturemen. To these wiser ones the action of the stagemen seemed a threat. The Brothers Shubert alone own, control or have easy access to more than 30 theatres in the provinces. Less powerful individually but dangerous en masse are Hammerstein, Brady, Woods, lesser lights. The Vocafilm reputedly costs less to install than does Movietone, Vitaphone. Further, cinemagnates recalled...