Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...massive, retentive and, though powerful, often very clumsy. Since 1928, the last attribute of the Republican Party has been its most conspicuous one. First sign of smartness the G. O. P. has exhibited in almost a decade appeared last year in the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Smartness in this crisis, however, since it consisted merely of lying low and letting conservative and progressive Democrats battle it out, was of too negative a sort to be very encouraging. Not until this year have signs of genuine Republican resurgence made it of real interest...
Practical Politician. The Republican Congressional Committee consists of 21 Republican members of the House of Representatives. Its capital, if it gets the same bankroll from the National Committee that it got in 1936, will be $350,000. Its job is to help those Republican candidates who have a fighting chance to get into Congress to do so. This it does by adding to their local campaign chests, writing speeches for them, and helping to publicize their campaigns. The Committee, soon to be enlarged, currently has a staff of three secretaries, two statisticians and two newspapermen, operating under Executive Secretary Earl...
...Rightist offensive on a front of 200 miles (see map) kept darting warily up into this town or that last week, scuttling back almost as soon as they arrived. As one cabled, "the changing front is like shifting sands." In frenzied efforts to keep the People's Army fighting, such powerful speakers were rushed to the front as Communist Deputy André Marty of the French Chamber who dashed about shouting: "Fight on! French troops are coming to help you repel the Fascist hordes. If you can hold out for three days, they will be here...
Meanwhile the Lincoln-Washington battalion of Americans suffered its heaviest blow of the war. Caught behind the enemy lines as the Rightists smashed through, the battalion tried to fight its way back in small groups. Nine men attempted to swim the swift Ebro River, three got across. At week's end only 150 of the 450 Americans had been accounted...
...Chamber of Deputies the Popular Front majority showed fight, provoked pandemonium and suspension of the session by invalidating the recent election of Rightist Jean Goy. Screamed angry Rightists, "There is no more Chamber!", but soon it was sitting again...