Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swinging deck chairs, clubs, anything they could lay their hands to, the Bremen's stout Nazi crew went to work. As the fight spread, some of the women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over...
...William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President the sick Governor replied: "Very happy to see you at St. Mary's Hospital Aug. 31." The Roosevelt-Olson meeting, however, was not destined to take place...
...whose clutches multimillionaires may fall. With his extremely rugged individualism, Count Romanones snorted further that of course the Monarchy still would be in power if it had made judicious concessions to the proletariat a little sooner, and that of course Spain's Government has no alternative except to fight the Whites. "As a Spaniard," snapped the Count, "I suffer to see all this misfortune befall my country...
When Schmeling unexpectedly knocked out Joe Louis last June, the next major fight in prospect was Schmeling v. Braddock. Either because wily little Joe Gould considers Schmeling more likely than Louis to beat his fighter or because, supposing that the feat can be accomplished by either, he would prefer to have it done by Louis who is sure to draw a bigger crowd, Manager Gould has never shown much eagerness to have the Schmeling v. Braddock fight take place...
...East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters...