Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though the contending forces were still formally united in the Federation, the battle lines were already clearly drawn. On one side were ranged William Green and his fellow craft unionists, representing nearly two-thirds of A. F. of L.'s membership. Beneficiaries of an entrenched order, they would fight to preserve it. Against them stood John Llewellyn Lewis and his fellow industrial unionists of the Committee for Industrial Organization, representing A. F. of L.'s remaining strength. Visionaries of a new order, they would fight to create it. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council was debating...
...lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the armed force it commands!" However, Sir Walter said: "It is a delusion to imagine that the Labor movement is opposed to war in all circumstances," ended with a stirring battle cry for the League of Nations' friends to fight...
...convened, the Chinese Parliament faced challenging demands from South-west China that the Nanking Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General...
Nobody was to get the idea that France would not fight if duly provoked. To this theme Leon Blum passed dexterously, seeking to reassure the Little Entente allies of France who today are afraid his new Socialist Cabinet may not prove trustworthy in their defense. "Because we had dedicated ourselves to peace," said the Premier, "we did not resist when the Rhineland was occupied in defiance of treaties. But, Messieurs, does anyone think our reaction would have been the same if [the Germans] had so much as touched our soil or the soil of other countries which we guarantee...
Later some 40,000 spectators wildly cheered 15,000 marching members of the Croix de Feu, giving the Fascist salute derisively at police. Ensued a free fight in which cafe patrons hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...