Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
...keep peace in the world?" was the question around which both the speech of Professor Wild and the discussion centered. "Neutrality won't work," the speaker stated, "the democracies must line up against the fascists and be prepared to fight...
...House party and because Congress had appropriated $100,000 for improvements, anything that happened in the National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement of a school rumpus brought police to the scene...
...fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...Author Cloete (pronounced "Clooty") describes. Made up of 500-odd persons, with 100 wagons and a miscellaneous herd of 8,000 goats, cows, oxen, horses to be nudged and nursed through the wilderness, it moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless...