Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first five years of Franklin Roosevelt's regime, he ran the U. S. Government faster and more completely than any President before or since. In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America...
Willingness to fight if continental America were invaded was voiced by 68.2 percent of the 31,515 ballots from 101 colleges in 30 states. Only 12.9 percent said they would fight in no war the government might declare...
Topic of both debates is Resolved: that it is the moral obligation of every American citizen to fight if called upon in any war in which the United States is a belligerent party. The Harvard team meeting Princeton, composed of John A. Sullivan '38; Lawrence F. Ebb '39; and Claudius Byrne '40, will support the negative side of the question. The general public will be admitted to the debate...
Phil Frankfield, State Secretary of the Party characterized the current "red baiting" aroused in Massachusetts over Harvard's appointment of Grauville Ricks as "a fight against democracy...
...something of a tycoon, Frank Howell decided to organize other Bronzeville bigwigs, hold a two-day Exposition of Negro Business for the double purpose of spurring Negro business and arranging a program to fight "fleecing" by whites. So last week to the shabby 8th Regiment Armory trooped no less than 110,000 Negroes to watch fashion shows, finger fancy caskets, see demonstrations of pressing the kink out of Negro hair, listen to church choirs and hot bands, munch free handouts or purchase raffle tickets from the 75 booths. No Negro gathering is complete without Joe Louis...