Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Palmer House one day last week rose speaker after speaker to pledge renewed allegiance to Liberty, the Constitution and the American Way of Life, assure his fellow members of the Republican National Committee that they had fought a good fight, been beaten only by the New Deal's unbeatable Relief funds. Vice President-reject Frank Knox generously conceded that the return of prosperity and Republicans' failure to "popularize" their issues had had something to do with it. The only harsh words at the consolation party came from two uninvited guests...
...representative of the "old. reactionary elements" he must be dropped. "If word goes out today that the Republican Party has learned no lesson," warned he, "it may be too late and our Party perishes before we can act to liberalize it in Congress. . . . Hamilton's fight on the Social Security Act drove millions out of the Party in the big industrial cities...
...tipped the scales. He left England as the eldest son who has locked a rattling skeleton in the Empire's closet and thrown away the key. Not ungrateful to opportune Winston Churchill, who had offered and sought to form a party of "King's men" to fight the issue out in Parliament, His Majesty rewarded this active British son of a U. S. mother last week with a discreetly private lunch...
...taken His Majesty around to their London hotel bedrooms and he has shaken and served the cocktails. That realistic Mrs. Simpson ever thought she could be Queen of England without a tremendous struggle is unlikely, and there is no reason to think she ever believed her "Boysy" would fight rather than run away to have more or less fun the rest of their lives. Englishmen bore her, English women him. Her Maryland relatives last week were reported heartbroken, had been sure they would have best seats at the Coronation...
...decision in the U. S. District Court in Boston last week terminated a long and bitter fight between dressmakers and department stores. Trouble came into the open last February when the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, patrolling the dress trade against style piracy, cracked down on R. H. White department store, owned by Boston's famed Wm. Filene's Sons Co., for harboring stolen styles (TIME, March 23). Members of the Guild refused to fill orders from White's or Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade...