Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huge advertisements in all major Eastern railroad stations this week lured the public with announcements of drastic cuts in fares. None of the posters made mention of the fact that 23 major Eastern railroads were last week settling down to a grim court fight against the Interstate Commerce Commission's order which made the new fares necessary. All 23 meticulously obeyed the order but declared they would reinstate the old fares if the courts would permit. Of all Eastern roads, only the Baltimore & Ohio complied voluntarily, announced the cuts were permanent...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, canon of St. John's Cathedral of Providence, R. I., longtime (1919-33) warden of St. Stephen's College, made headlines by declaring: "Let us not be too sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling in America but there is little pro-English feeling there...
...Rockne, learned to talk and dress like a college boy. Six years ago, when he was 18, he went to Los Angeles to live with his sister. His brother-in-law persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer to manage Haynes. Wary lest he fail to receive a full share of their attention, Haynes declined again, decided to go East. If he failed...
Parnell went back to Ireland to fight for his lost leadership, but there was too much against him. He made Edmund Leamy editor of his Dublin paper, United Ireland, had to raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight...
...left her to mind the place while he lived a masculine life of hunting and drinking. And Cully found he wanted Rachel, his half-aunt, more than anything else. Rachel was flattered but firmlv faithful. When at last Bill came home and found Cully there, they had a fight, and Bill was killed. Rachel was going to turn Cully in to the sheriff, but Old Man Roper had better sense...