Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community so rich in the stuff of life could fail to provide a political scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages...
...justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense of the value of a free press in America that the citizens of this republic shall become the willing cooperators, the fellow warriors with us, in a never-ceasing fight for the maintenance of democratic institutions...
Declaring that although he does not believe in making American citizens fight in foreign wars, he is unalterably opposed to pacifists who refuse to fight in defense of their country, Fish declared as he hurried into the Back Bay station to catch a train, "most pacifists and the people who want us to fight for other countries are foreigners...
...YORK--Promoter Mike Jacobs today announced Yankee Stadium, New York, as the site for the $1,000,000 Louis-Schmeling title fight on June 22, after yielding to pressure from the state boxing commission and owners of the Stadium and Polo Grounds...
Yale, Princeton, and other large college libraries are leading the fight to save the collection of the Hapsburg emporers from destruction. The librarians hope to purchase the Semitic collection, part of the world famous theatre collection, and all non-Nazi material before Hitler's men burn...