Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plenty of water, and Ducks Unlimited, tying in with Canada's prairie farms rehabilitation program, will scatter its lands with dams, dikes, ditches. After the engineers will come a permanent corps of wardens, biologists, breeding experts. They will see that ducks get plenty of food and cover, will fight against botulism and other epidemics which sweep duck populations. They will destroy the crows, cats, coyotes and magpies which prey on ducks, ducklings and duck eggs. They will set up duck factories, plants of incubators and brooders where ducklings may be hatched by hundreds of thousands...
Repeal is dead for a year at least. Many thoughtful people would prefer to let the law stand, rather than suffer the baptism by fire of the public debate. This is an unnecessary retreat, however, directed by considerations of the moment. A number of the legislators who led the fight against repeal last year no longer live on the public payroll. And it is to be hoped that those who fought the good fight will carry on, and let the next assault go over the top to trimuph...
...infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once the No. 1 U. S. Hero. Before he retired, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat self-importantly down, wrote the President of the U. S. a letter announcing his regret that "I am not able to go with you on this Supreme Court fight." Having thus given the President fair warning, 66-year-old Richmond Pearson Hobson slept soundly, ate a hearty breakfast next morning, but toned up his overcoat for the trip to his office, fell dead of a heart attack...
...family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the daughter his sweetheart. When the boys went back to military school, Danny went with them. And there bad blood began to brew between Danny and Steve. It came to a head when they had a finish fight. Steve won; the same day he was killed in a polo game...
...Woman Wise" gives a new slant on the newspaper business. A sports editor (Michael Whalen) grafts a percentage from fight promoters on the threat that he will give them no publicity in his paper. Despite this highly improbable theme, things move along rapidly and in a highly entertaining fashion...