Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course we knew he was a prize fight promoter in New York...
...line up for Conner. Chief Conner campaign cry: "Pat Harrison has got too big for Mississippi and is too busy with work for Roosevelt to take care of his consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political observers concluded that Pat Harrison was considerably perturbed about his coming election fight when they heard a story which angry wildlife conservationists were telling last week. Source of vast alarm to sportsmen and conservationists in recent years has been quail bootlegging, which grew up as an organized racket in Mississippi shortly after the War, has since spread to neighboring states and is seriously depleting...
...year-old Brooklynite and American Legionary; Senator Robert Wagner; Morris S. Tremaine, five-time State Comptroller; and Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, who gave Herbert Lehman a fight for the 1932 nomination with Tammany's ardent backing. In Albany Governor Lehman remained aloof from the shouting. To newshawks a close friend remarked: "It would take an earthquake to make him change his mind...
...addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling of the Hauptmann case (TIME, April 13). Said Republican Fort...
WORLD MUST TRADE OR FIGHT, HULL SAYS...