Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents ever acquired as much political prestige as Franklin Roosevelt had in December 1936. Few have lost as much as he lost in 1937. Crowded off the Congressional stage by the fight to enlarge the Supreme Court last spring, the plan to reorganize the executive branch was crowded off again this winter by more practical concerns. By last week, with the country apparently back in the trough of at least a Recession, the Reorganization Plan had reemerged. Because it gave the President's enemies in Congress a fine excuse- ill-supported by the bill itself-to argue in effect...
...Congress nothing is at once dearer and harder to defend than patronage. Any bill putting patronage jobs under civil service would have faced a hard fight at any time and when the Senate Reorganization Bill was brought up for debate the same confident group of anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor...
Intuitive Adolf Hitler is feminine in never wanting a fight, but only victory. It would hardly have occurred to a masculine dictator, such as Mussolini, simply to ask the Czechoslovakian Government through intermediaries last week to tear up their military alliance with the Soviet Government, yet this was just what the Führer did, according to officials at Prague...
...Czechoslovaks have an excellently equipped army of 173,000, have been proclaiming for weeks that they will fight if their border is crossed by the Germans. These brave words from brave men Der Führer duly took into account, but not in the way expected. Since he had barred London and Paris from aiding Czechoslovakia by making the Rome-Berlin Axis stretch uninterruptedly from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the problem last week was whether Moscow from the east will strike across Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week...
Meeting Leverich, Harkness won an easy decision, staying on top of his opponent for most of the fight. He mauled the Westerner constantly and was never in danger...