Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Ex-Senator Watson of Senator Norris' unsuccessful fight in 1910 to prevent the re-election of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to the Speakership and the readoption of the Reed Rules under which he operated as Speaker: "George W. Norris had been a judge, and always a man of industry and ability. Uncle Joe and I had just campaigned in his district, and we were all on the friendliest terms...
...Committee on Judiciary, and for some reason this ambition flamed mountain-high in him and became his consuming passion. Uncle Joe, in spite of my efforts to persuade him, steadfastly refused to name Norris, [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, disappointed at not being made chairman...
...Hollywood last week, Crooner Crosby, who also maintains a prizefighter, a girls' baseball team and a stable of race horses, one of which, Fight On, last week won its maiden race at odds of 80-to-1, announced that he would run a $3,000 invitation golf tournament at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, on Feb. 6-7. Golfers wondered whether Mysterious Montague would be invited to compete and, if so whether he would oblige his friend and the public by accepting...
...gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva's arms which are serpents, did not avail him. Finally in desperation he struck the demon with the club Vishnu had given...
...ports to reinforce the Washington picketers. Derisive shipowners asserted that the parade of cheering, dungareed men who rode into the Nation's Capital in battered trucks was the last flicker of the East Coast strike. Never authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last week after Si days there were still 235 ships tied up and only foreign bottoms cleared port. On the Atlantic, however, many a U. S. liner and freighter steamed away and two powerful unions (Masters, Mates and Pilots...