Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominating speeches were begun before the platform was brought in. That gave the platform-framers time to fight out all their differences off the convention floor...
...would vote for Smith. Missouri's Reed, after seeming to have quieted down, snapped "I am tired of this rot," and issued a statement which was a transparent attempt to rally the dwindling dry bloc. But it seemed that nothing upsetting would really happen-unless there came a fight over the party's platform...
Europe, characterized the U. S. as one of the greatest influences toward international brotherhood and as "that great, great republic which has inspired free government of the earth to fight for freedom...
...reason why! Let me warn you now, Senator, you can tell the Hoover crowd that Curtis has got to be nominated to keep the western states in line and if anybody else is put up I shall go before the convention and present his name and make a fight for it, and I think I can put him across...
...London has now almost forgotten that it was Herbert Hoover who roused U. S. rubbermen to fight tooth and nail the British rubber restriction scheme which the Empire has now been forced to abandon (TIME, April...