Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crowe plays Nora, the wife. In her efforts to save her husband she mocks the barricaded rebels, and charges them with fear to admit their fear. One feels that she abhors the struggle only because it destroys here own happiness, for in trying to drag Jack out of the fight she is oblivious of the agony of a man dying at their feet, and in her insane delusion that Jack is about to return, she takes no notice of a woman's death for which she is responsible...
...major fight start, we're sure to go in. Our best chance is in the policy toward which our government is moving, to apply our pressures wherever possible upon the side where, they will tend to repress aggressive action, realizing that to be effective in this desperate game means being not afraid to call a bluff when it is made. The best way to stay out of war is not being afraid to go into it. --The Yale News...
...idealistic end, a higher standard of journalism. But taken by themselves, fellowships amounting to $40,000 a year can scarcely affect the standing of the great mass of the nation's periodicals. It is hoped, therefore, that such a program will at least lead the way in the fight for better and cleaner journalism...
Edgar Snow left Soviet China two months before Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped, three months before the Communists and the Generalissimo began their elaborate hatchet-burying in preparing to fight Japan. He prophesies flatly that the Communist-Kuomintang alliance "concludes an epoch of revolutionary warfare and begins a new era." Newspaper readers following the Japanese advance might conclude that the new era is to be one of Japanese dominance. Not so, says Edgar Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated...
...like the A.F. of L. Tammany will fight on. As Thurman Arnold points out: "Institutions once formed have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in state departments; it still elects Assemblymen, State Senators, and Congressmen; it still makes judges. It will not obey any orders to disband. It will not be destroyed until it is beaten by another Democratic organization that combines the patronage, prestige, and mass support of the New Deal with the morale...