Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evils of bureaucracy, centralization and extravagant expenditures are a popular reaction to the evils of private privilege. They are defensive and complementary. They are fire used to fight fire, they are abuses of public power resulting from abuses of private power, and only those who are prepared to deal with the causes can hope to deal with the consequences...
Even so, not a few Nicaraguans were worried lest this private political fight serve as an excuse for another term of U. S. occupation. Accordingly, a Somoza spokesman last week broadcast the plea: "Let us solve our own problems. Let us shed our own blood." U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied, to pointed inquiries from Chile and Peru, that the U. S. had no intention of intervening in Nicaragua for the sake of the U. S.'s puny ($13,000,000) investments...
...Gateway"), which has been in receivership for the past 13 years (TIME, Sept. 23). Purchase price was to be $7,200,000, lent by RFC. Last month while I. C. C. hearings were still being held on the plan, Minneapolis citizens got excited, began raising a war chest to fight the M. & St. L.'s dismemberment, asked Congress to go to bat for the integrity of the road. The Senate voted a subcommittee investigation under Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Hendrik Shipstead...
...tales Jimmy told his guests to illustrate his contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry...
KNOCKOUT - Charles Francis Coe - Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game...