Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic law of the New Deal. But by last week there were signs that the Court fight was passing into a second stage, not over the drafting of New Deal law but over its administration. There were also signs that Henry Agard Wallace meant to be in the thick...
...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...
...fight dictatorship if we go arm-in-arm with Stalin?" rhetorically asked American Federation of Labor Delegate Matthew Woll last week in a debate at Oslo, Norway. Occasion: meeting of the general council of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu). Issue at stake; proposed merger of the 22,500,000 Russian trade unionists with the 17,000,000 Iftu members (mostly from democratic countries), which would give the U. S. S. R. the loudest voice in International Labor...
After two days' heated argument, the council voted 14-to-7 to terminate negotiations for a Russian merger. Leader of the fight against Russian admittance was British Delegate Sir Walter Citrine, president of Iftu's executive. In the minority were delegates from Leftist Spain. Mexico and France. Most disappointed was French Trade Union Leader Léon Jouhaux, who last November traveled to Moscow, there negotiated with Soviet Labor Leader Solomon Lozovsky the conditions under which Soviet workers would enter the Iftu...
From the word Allez, 51-year-old Bourdet was fighting mad, lunged wildly at 61-year-old Bernstein's chest and abdomen. At first Bernstein took it easy, then gradually matched his opponent's aggressiveness, finally gave Bourdet a poke in the arm. This ended the fight. But not for Bourdet. Snapped he: "This is only a theatre duel." Begging in vain for another go, he finally strode fuming off the field, without shaking Bernstein's hand...