Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First of all, we should permit a volunteer army to be raised here to fight on the side of the Allies," he said. "Our navy should be used to convoy every available American merchant vessel in order to carry food to France and England. Moreover, we should produce a large number of planes and train a huge corps of pilots in case Russia and Italy join Germany...
America is in a healthy state. Unlike Nov. 11, 1914 it knows what it wants, and it is going to fight for it as citizens more determinedly than as soldiers. Twenty-five years ago war was something that belonged to a foreign world, certainly not to college. "Harvard Plays Football While Civilization Totters," wrote the Crimson. No word of war was to appear in its pages, Mother Advocate announced. A few inquisitive minds finally formed a University Forum in order to discuss the European conflict. Towards the second half of the year, uneasy ripples began to disturb the surface calm...
...mayoralty fight, Richard M. Russell lost by more than 6,000 votes in one of the greatest defeats ever received in a Cambridge election. Lyons received 23,319 votes to Russell...
Potocki's talk, the first of a series of Polish culture programs sponsored by the Slavic Circle, is entitled "Poland and the World Crisis." At the present time he is principally concerned with arousing sympathy in this country for Poland in her new fight for liberation...
...cheers of his supporters, Mike told how he had to fight off five Flanagan "hatchet men" before he could speak at another rally...