Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days the Republicans knew very little of the secret Nazi-Communist war. Until the trial was well under way few people realized that more was at stake than a duel between a pimp named Albrecht Hoehler and a brown-shirted street fighter named Horst Wessel for the favor of a harlot. Eight people received sentences up to six years at hard labor. Albrecht Hoehler, who confessed firing the fatal shots, died very suddenly in jail last year immediately after the Nazis took over the government. Most of the rest have completed their terms. A new trial with three...
...Perry's committee swung into action. A fighter who preferred defeat to compromise, he wished his fellow Virginian ousted. He got the committee to vote (43-to-28) to retire Bishop Cannon for "ill health" - only grounds permissible under church discipline. But the conference, after two hours of debate in which the "Prohibishop" was pictured as a martyr to the machinations of the Wet Press and the Roman Catholic Church or as a man ''infirm" because of his "love of money and love of power," voted its confidence...
...Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill last week, and told him that, despite his burning Tory opposition, the Reform Bill, granting a considerable measure of self government to India, was very close to passage. But all his life the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has been a fighter. Sprawled on the front row Ministers' Bench last week he suddenly arose and addressed the Speaker...
...told youse I used to be a fighter, that's part of my hidden past. Yeah, it's true. I was getting along swell until my first fight when I found out my nose get in the way. I was going to walk out of the ring when the guy (jeez but he was a tough mug) popped me right in da puss. I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a battler...
Apparently satisfied with the result of the hearing, which demonstrated Gill's ability as a fighter, Wilkins goes out of his way to attack "Hit and Run" Hurley. Realizing that although every effort has been made by Gill's faction to keep the answers in the realm of substance, the original investigation and allegations of Hurley were of such a personal nature that the "language frequently used renders this difficult." Also what is now left of Hurley's report to be combatted consists mainly in the bitter insinuations of the Auditor...