Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gettysburg Address to the present state of the Union. Using 644 words to Lincoln's 266, Franklin Roosevelt pictured the people's Government threatened by unnamed enemies: ". . .When a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up. . . . The fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall." In Lincoln's case, "a generation passed before the new unity became accepted." In Franklin Roosevelt's case, "it is another conflict, as fundamental as Lincoln's, fought not with glint...
...eligible writers employed at Hollywood's 14 active studios solemnly cast their votes. Screen Writers Guild got 271 votes, a thumping majority at every studio. Result of the bickering: President Nichols promptly offered to "bury the hatchet," form a unified organization; President Mahin retorted that "the fight has just begun," promised to take it to the courts...
...secure from the FCC the wavelengths needed for commercial operation. With current experiments using a 6,000-kilocycle band for each picture transmitter, televisers would require such a hog's share of useful frequencies, that operators of other short-wave services (wireless communications, aeronautical radio, etc.) would fight. All this has the FCCommissioners pondering...
While Electric Bond & Share took the fight to the Supreme Court, only to lose the first round last spring (TIME, April 4), United Corp. tried to persuade SEC to let it reorganize as an investment trust. SEC turned down no less than seven such proposals (TIME, Feb. 7), and after the Supreme Court's decision, United had to register with SEC after...
...auctioneer and veterinary dentist, he is vociferous, deft-tongued, sportswise by inheritance, has a record of 244 words a minute. Still warming to his work when Champion Louis had finished his, Ringsider McCarthy was reduced to dithering bewilderment. His most absurd dither: "This is the shortest fight on record wherein a title changed hands...