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Word: fighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of possible men which President Roosevelt is studying now, every one has some handicap which would make the President hesitate before naming him. Against Professor Frankfurter there are only two bad points from the White House point of view. The first is that during the bitter fight last year, when Mr. Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court was engaging the interest of the country Professor Frankfurter refused to stand at Armageddon and do battle for the Sage of Hyde Park...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: Harvard's Frankfurter Believed Sure for Supreme Court Berth | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Warren Williams, ranking as number three man, put up a good fight to lose only by the score of 3 to 2 to Warren Delano. The scores here were 16-18, 16-18, 15-13, 17-16, and 18-16. Jim Rousmaniere, number four man played and lost his match on Monday, the games then being 3 to 1 and the scores, 15-9, 15-12, 15-16, and 15-11. His adversary was Walter S. Hardie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Players Lose First Match to Union Boat Club | 11/30/1938 | See Source »

Cissie Patterson's chain gang departed, but she continued her fight with the President over the number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Continental Solidarity | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Henry Armstrong v. Ceferino Garcia (Fri. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue). Postponed welterweight championship fight from Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...drains the Powder River grass country where Western history was made. It watered the great ranch of the English-owned Powder River Cattle Co., which once ran 60,000 head of cattle. Along its valley rode 55 raiders from the big ranches of the South who came to fight the Johnson County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Rivers | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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