Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fighter & Fight. "Don't call me judge," Felix Frankfurter implored newsmen who stormed his Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court...
Harvard's Byrne Professor of Administrative Law believes above all else that the independent Government boards and agencies that have taken over much of the lawmaker's function should be no more arbitrary than other lawmakers. If Fighter Frankfurter's enthusiasm for drawing this line inconveniences red hot New Dealers, at 56 Felix Frankfurter may still be in a bitter fight after he joins the Supreme Court...
...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
...Marriner Eccles, also charged with bank supervision, was known to have rushed to Warm Springs to complain to Franklin Roosevelt that the Reserve had not been consulted until two days before SEC cut loose. Here was the sort of division in the enemy's ranks which a great fighter like Amadeo Giannini could not fail to spot. Holding his tongue with difficulty as Transamerica stock broke a hefty $30,000,000 worth, he limited himself to snapping: "We are firmly of the belief that the motive behind this complaint is one calculated definitely to prejudice Transamerica Corp...
...salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...