Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of Boss Crump to achieve his political ends became apparent last week. His friend Senator McKellar and others who value Boss Crump's votes failed to put up a real fight for Candidate Dossett. In Shelby County the vote was: Browning 60,302; Dossett 872. When the ballots were counted in Tennessee, Candidate Browning had won the Democratic nomination by better than...
Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers...
...formally accepting his nomination for the Presidency, Governor Landon chose to fight with cold water the fire of New Deal enthusiasm (TIME, Aug. 3). Against the advice of those who felt that Republicans must start a back-fire of enthusiasm, against rabid New Deal haters who wanted him to preach a holy crusade, Nominee Landon offered no burning sentiments, spoke in no burning voice. Last week in accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination Publisher Knox of the Chicago Daily News cut loose with a red-hot attack on the New Deal which made GOPartisans jump with...
...Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand the end of Jock's prosperity in 1929. When...
Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago...