Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the thought of war in Europe, between whatever powers, for whatever cause, was abhorrent to most U. S. citizens. But after Prime Minister Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia...
...Workers Alliance of America, union of unemployed and relief workers, decided last spring to hold its fourth annual convention in Cleveland, where people who could not get relief were then fighting in the streets for food (TIME, May 16). Last week 500 Alliance delegates assembled in Cleveland's Public Auditorium. They did not look like darlings of Harry Hopkins or anybody else. Some were ebony Negroes from the South. Nearly all had an air of shabby insecurity. All showed fight...
Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...
...carded for November is another fight between Messrs. Fay & O'Connor, for the latter, to be on the safe side, entered the Republican primary also, on a straight anti-Roosevelt platform. To the disgust of young Republican leaders who are trying to "liberalize" their party, Roosevelt-hating Republicans rewarded Tammany's O'Connor for his long public service (eight House terms) by picking him as their party's nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish...
...secret to the Vag that he probably could tuck that pigskin under his wing and run like hell for a touchdown against most any opposition. And he's a pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping all the time. He has a very distinct idea of how it feels to get out into the clear and watch the safety man dive at him desperately--and miss. It feels grand. And he can take it when the going gets...