Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only a handful of warehousemen signed up, flatly refused. "This," cried he, "is a showdown fight. We'll close every port on the Pacific Coast where warehousemen are not teamsters," "These gentlemen," rasped Longshoreman Bridges, "not only want a labor war but demand...
...straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation. Boise's firemen last week promptly decided to take no chances. Instead of trying to put the little fire out, they sat down to watch...
Exact boundary of Boise is the centre of Reserve Street. From engines and a pump wagon, parked on the city's side of the street, the firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help...
...arrives. Agents like Gouverneur Ashwell claim not to know who started I.I.U.R.A. or who is currently running it. According to Mankind United (which I.I.U.R.A.'s members irreverently call "the book"), the organization was started in 1875 by an anonymous group of millionaires who pooled $60,000,000 to fight the "Hidden Rulers of the World." Purpose of the Hidden Rulers was and is to massacre 400,000,000 intelligent, right-thinking members of the globe's population, install a new social order in which all but the 40,000 Rulers will be reduced to the status of slaves...
...Goncourts began their journal in 1851, on the day their first novel was scheduled to appear. Unfortunately it was also the day Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert...