Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying on at 12:05 a. m. that night with a breakfast dance in the Casino Ballroom over Henry Bolton's store, a speech by the eminent Negro Statesman Roscoe Conkling Simmons (familiar to all attendants at Republican National Conventions), and a showing of motion pictures of the fight of the century: Joe Louis beating World Champion James J. Braddock (25? admission). And so on to Friday...
...French Socialists bigwigs for Socialist Leon Blum. As a moneyed young man Leader Blum for years helped impecunious comrades keep their landladies at bay. Yet last week militant pinks set themselves to make the Socialist Party Congress at Marseille hot for Vice Premier Blum. His recent resignation "without a fight" as Premier (TIME, June 28, et seq.) and his orders to Socialists to support the new Cabinet of moderate Premier Camille Chautemps they flung last week in Leader Blum's face with fury, charged him with betrayal. "Everything should be done by us Socialists to make life impossible...
Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...
...heard of them for the rest of the summer. But no Indians were seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith's men joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves...
When the Revolution broke out Smith and 36 of his veteran fighters volunteered for guerilla fighting in New Jersey. Delighted by their success, Smith proposed to General Washington that a battalion of frontiersmen be recruited to fight Indian style. On the grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone...